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NASA's Roman Space Telescope to combine wide field and high resolution for Milky Way surveys

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has a Hubble-sized mirror but a field of view up to 200 times larger. Repeated observations will track changing stars, find exoplanets and detect microlensing events.

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NASA's Roman Space Telescope to combine wide field and high resolution for Milky Way surveys

Hubble-sized mirror with a field of view up to 200 times larger
Galactic Bulge survey expected to find about 100,000 transiting planets
Microlensing will reveal Mars-sized planets and black holes
Near-infrared observations will expand the sample of faintest stars

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NASA's Roman Space Telescope to combine wide field and high resolution for Milky Way surveys

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

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