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    Roman telescope aims to directly image exoplanets 1,000 times fainter than current limits

    August 28, 2026, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    Enabling images of distant worlds
    An artist’s concept of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Credit: NASA/SVS

    The Roman Space Telescope is designed to directly image exoplanets using complex optomechanical systems developed by the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy

    The Roman Space Telescope has been under development for about a decade under NASA’s leadership and is scheduled to launch on Aug. 30, 2026, at 7:26 a.m. EDT. The telescope is named after Nancy Grace Roman, who was considered the architect of NASA’s modern science program and, among other efforts, dedicated herself to the success of the Hubble Space Telescope project.

    Roman’s destination is the L2 Lagrange point, a specific location 1...

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