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Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Lifts Off to Open New Insights Into the Universe

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NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched Sunday at 7:26 a.m. EDT aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The telescope is now on a three-month, million-mile journey to its final orbit, carrying a 2.4 m wide field of view mirror, a Wide-Field Instrument, and a Coronagraphic Instrument to study dark energy and search for exoplanets.

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope lifted off this morning on a mission to find more planets around other stars in the universe and solve the mysteries of dark energy […]

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