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Roman Telescope Launches Big Cosmic Vision | Odessa News
NASA just launched its most ambitious space telescope yet—the Roman Space Telescope—on a Falcon Heavy rocket, marking a historic leap in astronomy. Priced at $4.3 billion and named after NASA’s first chief astronomer, Nancy Grace Roman, this bus-sized observatory will scan the sky a thousand times faster than Hubble, hunting for thousands of exoplanets, billions of galaxies, and supernovae while unraveling dark energy’s secrets. It’ll join Webb at a million-mile outpost, working alongside other telescopes to answer cosmic mysteries. Even more impressive? Its main mirror was repurposed from a…
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