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There's A New Space Telescope On Its Way To Help Answer The Biggest Question In The Universe

On August 30, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope successfully launched from Florida and will spend the next three months heading to its new home: a Sun-Earth Lagrange point, a million miles from Earth, where the gravity of the two larger bodies are in equilibrium. It’s a comfy place to be for a space telescope;…

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There's A New Space Telescope On Its Way To Help Answer The Biggest Question In The Universe
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