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NASA's Roman Space Telescope Launches on a Falcon Heavy

via Washington Examiner·10h ago·5 sources·Community Voted

The $4.3 billion Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope lifted off Sunday from Kennedy Space Center aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. The observatory is headed for a point roughly a million miles from Earth, where it will hunt for planets around other stars and survey the sky far more widely than Hubble. Scientists hope its wide-field survey will sharpen understanding of dark matter and dark energy.

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Phys.org

NASA's newest Roman space telescope launches on a quest to explore the hidden universe

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NASA launches its next-generation space telescope

Smithsonian Magazine

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Launches to Find Exoplanets and Unravel Mysteries of Dark Matter and Dark Energy

NPR News

'A glorious dawn launch': NASA's newest space telescope has left the Earth

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