# Bake a Cosmic Cake

![Bake a Cosmic Cake](https://assets.science.nasa.gov/dynamicimage/assets/science/missions/rst/education/romancake_smaller%201.png?w=1600&fit=clip)

- Released: January 7, 2025
- Category: illustrations
- Credit: NASA
- NASA source: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/roman-space-telescope/education-and-outreach-materials/
- Page: https://roman.mixinvisuals.com/image/pfc5679925f37/bake-a-cosmic-cake/

To celebrate what would have been the 100th birthday of Dr. Nancy Grace Roman — NASA’s first chief astronomer and the namesake for the agency’s nearly complete Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope — we’re baking a cosmic birthday cake!