COSMOLOGY - Nancy Grace Roman Telescope - GARTH-ILLINGWORTH -DAVID-LIVINGSTON-HOTEL-MARS 102926
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1957 Nancy Grace Roman Telescope Garth Illingworth discusses the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, bound for an orbit roughly one million miles from Earth. Featuring a field of view ten to fifteen times wider than Hubble or Webb, Roman will map dark energy, study dark matter, and conduct a vast exoplanet survey. All data will be immediately open. (2)
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