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NASA launches powerful new Roman Space Telescope from Florida
The $4.3 billion observatory will scan the sky 1,000 times faster than Hubble and could find more than 100,000 exoplanets, NASA said.
- NASA is preparing to launch the Roman Space Telescope on Sunday from Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, embarking on a multi-year mission to create an unprecedented map of the cosmos.
- Developed over a decade at a cost of $4 billion, the observatory is named after pioneering U.S. astronomer Nancy Grace Roman, who became known as the "Mother of Hubble," another of NASA's flagship telescopes.
- With a field of view more than 100 times larger than Hubble's, the telescope will generate about 1.3 terabytes of data daily while using infrared vision to detect light from billions of years ago.
- Researchers aim to illuminate dark matter and dark energy, which together comprise about 95 per cent of the universe, using Roman's vantage point 1.5 million kilometers from Earth.
- Roman's observations will complement the European Space Agency's Euclid probe and the Rubin Observatory in Chile, as project scientist Julie McEnery noted that recent research suggests current expansion models may be wrong.
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NASA Roman Space Telescope launches to hunt planets and explore dark energy
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope has begun its journey into space aboard SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy. With a field of view more than 100 times wider than Hubble, Roman will hunt for planets, study dark energy and survey billions of galaxies.
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