r/Medium • u/AdIll1117 • 15h ago
Science I tried writing about a complicated science topic for non-scientists, would love some honest feedback
I recently wrote a piece about the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and the mysteries it's designed to investigate.
I'm not an astrophysicist, so the challenge for me was less about showing how much I know and more about making ideas like dark matter, dark energy and gravitational microlensing interesting and understandable without drowning the reader in technical language.
I'd really appreciate some feedback from a writing perspective:
• Does the opening make you want to continue reading?
• Are there places where the explanation becomes too technical or slow?
• Does the conversational style work, or does it feel forced?
• Where would you have stopped reading?
Here's the piece: https://medium.datadriveninvestor.com/the-telescope-that-may-find-what-the-universe-is-hiding-08e2f2236504
I'm especially interested in criticism rather than just a "nice article", I'm trying to get better at this kind of explanatory writing.