NASA's Roman Space Telescope Transmits Initial Test Images

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Published: 2026-10-02
Category: science
Source: The Daily Galaxy
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NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, launched on August 30, has sent its first test images from its L2 position. These early pictures, showing blurry green rings of star clusters, were taken before full camera calibration. This marks a significant preparatory step for the mission, which aims to study dark energy and exoplanets with a field of view 100 times larger than Hubble's.

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