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  "id": 3788129,
  "title": "9 Things to Know About NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/27/9-things-to-know-about-nasas-nancy-grace-roman-space-telescope",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-27T17:47:11.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "NASA Science",
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    "url": "https://science.nasa.gov/missions/roman-space-telescope/9-things-to-know-about-nasas-nancy-grace-roman-space-telescope/"
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  "account": "1. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is scheduled to launch on Sunday, August 30, 2026, at 7:26 a.m. EDT from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.\n\n2. The mission is named after Dr. Nancy Grace Roman, who was NASA's first chief astronomer and instrumental in promoting space-based observatories to study the universe above Earth's atmosphere.\n\n3. Roman's primary mission is to explore dark matter, dark energy, and exoplanets, with its wide-field infrared vision imaging large swathes of the cosmos.\n\n4. The spacecraft will reach its destination, the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point (L2), about a million miles from Earth, where it will join the James Webb Space Telescope and perform its observations.\n\n5. Over a million people submitted their names to be carried on a memory card to the Roman spacecraft, which will orbit beyond the Moon for at least five years, with the possibility of an additional five-year extended mission.\n\n6. Roman's Wide Field Instrument is a 300-megapixel infrared camera, providing sharp images of the sky up to 100 times larger than Hubble's field of view, enabling astronomers to capture detailed images of objects across vast distances.\n\n7. The observatory works in conjunction with other NASA-led and international missions, such as the James Webb Space Telescope and the European Space Agency's Euclid mission, to provide a more comprehensive view of the universe and facilitate the sharing of data for further analysis.",
  "summary": "NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to launch at 7:26 a.m. EDT on Sunday, Aug. 30. While you wait to watch the launch, brush up on some key facts about this wide-view mission. To learn more about the Roman mission, visit: https://www.nasa.gov/roman Media contact: Claire AndreoliNASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.claire.andreoli@nasa.gov301-286-1940 The post 9 Things to…",
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        "title": "NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to launch this weekend. When will we see its first photos?",
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        "outlet": "NASA",
        "title": "9 Things to Know About NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/27/9-things-to-know-about-nasas-nancy-grace-roman-space-telescope-3802557",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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