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Roman Telescope to Revolutionize Exoplanet Discovery | Toronto News
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is poised to revolutionize astronomy, named after the “mother of Hubble” and set to orbit at the second Lagrange point for a five-year mission. With a mirror like Hubble’s plus a coronagraph to detect exoplanets and a wide-field instrument 100 times broader in view, it will survey 100 million stars—potentially uncovering 100,000 new transiting planets—and use microlensing to find Earth-like worlds. Beyond exoplanets, Roman will map dark matter’s invisible grip on galaxies and probe dark energy’s role in accelerating cosmic expansion, offering…
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