NASA Launches Roman Telescope

NASA launched its $4.3 billion Roman Space Telescope to study the hidden universe.

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NASA launches its Roman Space Telescope to explore the hidden universe

The story behind NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

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NASA’s $4.3 billion Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched Aug. 30 at 7:26 a.m. EDT from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. The observatory is beginning a roughly three-month, 1 million-mile trip to the Sun-Earth L2 region, where it will operate near the James Webb Space Telescope. Roman will use a Hubble-class mirror and 300-megapixel wide-field infrared camera to survey galaxies, dark energy, dark matter and exoplanets. Its five-year prime mission is designed to map cosmic structure far faster than Hubble.

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