Roman Space Telescope Aims for a Wide-Angle View of the Universe
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NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to launch Aug. 30 and will map the cosmos with a field of view at least 100 times larger than Hubble, thanks to its Wide Field Instrument and a 300-megapixel infrared camera, plus a coronagraph to spot exoplanets. Operating near the Sun-Earth L2 point, Roman will study dark energy, dark matter, and the abundance of planets, potentially observing more than a billion galaxies in its first five years and complementing the deep infrared work of JWST.
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