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NASA's Roman Space Telescope Launches to Map the Cosmos

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched on August 30, 2026, beginning a three-month journey to L2. With a field of view 100 times larger than Hubble's, it will survey billions of stars and galaxies, transforming astronomy into a data-driven science.

How the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will turn the sky into a dataset
NASA's Roman Space Telescope Launches to Map the Cosmos
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NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched on August 30, 2026, beginning a three-month journey to L2. With a field of view 100 times larger than Hubble's, it will survey billions of stars and galaxies, transforming astronomy into a data-driven science.

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