NASA's mind-blowing new space telescope

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AD | Go to https://ground.news/drbecky to stay fully informed with the latest Space and Science news. Save 40% off the Vantage plan through my link for unlimited access | NASA’s brand new telescope is about to do in one month, what would’ve taken the Hubble space telescope a century to do. That telescope is called Roman, and it launches really soon on Sunday, 30th August 2026. Roman is the follow-up to Hubble, it's the same size and so will give us the same level of detail in images, but it’s also been designed to look at a much bigger area of sky in a single observation: its field of view is a hundred times bigger than Hubble’s! That’s why Roman is being put to work doing surveys of the sky, splitting the sky up into patches and taking an image of every patch to meticulously record what we find there. So while all the images taken by Hubble in its 36 year lifetime have only covered less than 1% of the entire sky, Roman will cover 12% of the sky in just 17 months, a feat that would

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