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Roman's Portrait of the Cosmos is Coming

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Published: May 20, 2020

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is an upcoming space telescope designed to perform wide-field imaging and spectroscopy of the infrared sky. One of Roman's objectives will be looking for clues about dark energy — the mysterious force that is accelerating the expansion of the universe. Another objective of the mission will be finding and studying exoplanets.

More information: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13606

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