NASA’s Roman Space Telescope: Hubble’s mirror, sky-wide view to chase dark energy and distant worlds
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NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will launch on Aug 30, 2026 aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy to the Sun–Earth L2 point, using a 2.4-meter mirror with a sky-wide field of view about 100 times larger than Hubble’s to map dark energy across a billion galaxies and hunt for exoplanets via microlensing, with a coronagraph tech demonstrator to pave the way for direct imaging of distant worlds.
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