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This weekend, NASA will launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.

It is expected to be a 10 year mission to hunt for exoplanets, to map the Milky Way, and to help unravel mysteries such as dark matter.

It is named for NASA's first chief astronomer, from 1960-1979.

While the Webb telescope uses high-detail zoom for distant targets, Roman is a wide-angle cosmic surveyor, with a field of view 100 times larger than Webb.

Roman will focus on visible light and infrared while Hubble continues to capture ultraviolet, (20 years after the mission parameters).



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