Astronomy: New Space Telescope "Nancy Grace Roman" Launched
More than 35 years have passed since "Hubble" was launched, and the space telescope is correspondingly old and weak. Now a successor has been launched into space. It is significantly more powerful.
The US space agency NASA has launched a new space telescope, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, into space using a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The telescope is expected to reach its orbit, approximately 1.6 million kilometers from Earth, in about a month and send its first images in early 2027.
The mission has a total budget of over $4 billion and will be used to study exoplanets, exploding stars, and black holes. The telescope is expected to collect over 500 terabytes of data per year, compared to the 400 terabytes collected by the Hubble telescope over 35 years.
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