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NASA's Roman Telescope Passes Pointing Tests and Sees First Light

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope completed fine-guidance tests from September 15 to 21, confirming stability better than 1/100,000 of a degree. On September 22 its Coronagraph Instrument detected cosmic light for the first time, followed by joint pointing tests on September 27.

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NASA's Roman Telescope Passes Pointing Tests and Sees First Light

Pointing stability: better than 1/100,000 of a degree for 30 minutes with the Wide Field Instrument
The coronagraph can hold stability for up to eight hours at a time
On September 22 the coronagraph first detected light from a star in the Large Magellanic Cloud
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