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  "id": 4634169,
  "title": "NASA’s Roman Space Telescope launches to reveal the Universe’s darkest secrets",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/31/nasas-roman-space-telescope-launches-to-reveal-the-universes-darkest",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-31T09:23:21.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "ScienceDaily",
    "slug": "sciencedaily",
    "url": "https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260831035213.htm"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "NASA’s Roman Space Telescope has launched on a million mile journey to L2, where it will scan huge portions of the cosmos for clues about dark matter, dark energy, and distant worlds. With survey speeds roughly 1,000 times faster than Hubble and a torrent of 1.4 terabytes of data per day, Roman could uncover cosmic surprises astronomers have never seen before.",
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      {
        "outlet": "France 24",
        "title": "Why NASA's new telescope could revolutionise our understanding of the universe",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/31/why-nasas-new-telescope-could-revolutionise-our-understanding-of-the",
        "published": "2026-08-31T10:40:10.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "El Pais English",
        "title": "A billion galaxies, two cosmic mysteries: Inside NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman telescope",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/31/a-billion-galaxies-two-cosmic-mysteries-inside-nasas-nancy-grace",
        "published": "2026-08-31T17:46:08.000Z"
      }
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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."
}