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  "id": 4420461,
  "title": "NASA's newest space telescope launches on a quest to explore the hidden universe",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/30/nasas-newest-space-telescope-launches-on-a-quest-to-explore-the-4420461",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-30T12:30:06.000Z",
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    "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/30/nasas-newest-telescope-launches-on-a-quest-to-explore-the-universe.html"
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  "summary": "NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, named after the agency's first chief astronomer, has launched on a mission to explore the universe. The telescope, which cost $4.3 billion according to CBS News, or roughly $4 billion according to Business Recorder, was carried into space by a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center.\n\nThe telescope will take more than three months to reach its destination, a point in space about a million miles from Earth, known as Lagrange Point 2. From there, it will map the large-scale structure of the cosmos with a wide-field 300-megapixel camera, searching for clues about dark energy and dark matter.\n\nThe Roman Space Telescope is expected to catalog some 20 billion stars, 2 billion or more individual galaxies, and tens of thousands of supernova blasts. It will also discover exoplanets, with the number of known exoplanets expected to climb well above 100,000 by the end of the mission, which is planned for five years, though it may have enough fuel for five additional years.",
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        "outlet": "Winnipeg Free Press",
        "title": "NASA’s newest space telescope launches on a quest to explore the hidden universe",
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        "outlet": "CNBC World",
        "title": "NASA's newest space telescope launches on a quest to explore the hidden universe",
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        "published": "2026-08-30T12:30:06.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "Associated Press",
        "title": "NASA’s newest space telescope launches on a quest to explore the hidden universe",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/30/nasas-newest-space-telescope-launches-on-a-quest-to-explore-the-4426530",
        "published": "2026-08-30T12:53:02.000Z"
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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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