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NASA just launched its most powerful space telescope yet—the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope—on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, marking a “glorious dawn launch” as mission controllers cheered. Originally a spy satellite, this cosmic workhorse was repurposed by NASA in honor of Nancy Grace Roman, the agency’s first chief astronomer and Hubble’s visionary architect. With Hubble’s precision but a field of view 100 times wider, it’s designed to hunt dark matter, map dark energy, and discover over 100,000 exoplanets. After a three-month journey to its final orbit and calibration phase, the telescope will beam back 1.4 terabytes of data daily—freely accessible via cloud for anyone eager to explore the cosmos.

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