1,000 times faster than Hubble: Up close with the NASA space telescope meant to unlock the cosmos

Cătălin Roșioru

GREENBELT, Md. — It’s go time for NASA’s next-generation space telescope. After nearly two decades of development, $4.3 billion and the labor of hundreds of scientists and engineers, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is less than three months from launch. From a point roughly 1 million miles from Earth, the telescope is expected to survey the cosmos, capturing panoramas of hundreds of millions of stars and billions of galaxies. With this observatory, NASA hopes to unravel the secrets of

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