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ScienceApr 22, 2026

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, NASA's next great observatory, is finally complete

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, NASA's next great observatory, is finally complete
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NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which is set to launch this coming September, has the potential to show us pockets of the cosmos we've yet to touch.

— On Tuesday (April 21) here at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, I watched as scientists stood proudly around a metal contraption with towering orange solar panels and a sparkling silver base.

"The images it captures will be so large there is not a screen in existence large enough to show them.

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