Roman Space Telescope Poised to Map the Cosmos
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NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, built at Goddard and standing about 40 feet tall, is complete and designed to map the universe with sweeping wide-field surveys that aim to shed light on dark energy and dark matter while also hunting thousands of exoplanets; it carries a coronagraph to enable direct imaging of planets, will undergo months of commissioning after launch, and is headed to Kennedy Space Center for a potential September liftoff.
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