NASA's Roman Space Telescope completes construction, ready to discover 100,000 exoplanets

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NASA's Roman Space Telescope is complete and poised to discover over 100,000 alien worlds. The observatory, named after Nancy Grace Roman, will launch ahead of schedule, potentially by September 28, 2026, and begin collecting data by year-end. It will work alongside Hubble and JWST. Roman's mission includes mapping the Milky Way, studying dark matter, and using its Coronagraph Instrument to directly image exoplanets.


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