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Telescope Takes Off

A rocket lifts into the sky above a cloud of smoke.
JOEL KOWSKY—NASA

On August 30, NASA launched the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope from Kennedy Space Center, in Florida. The space telescope can see an area of sky 100 times larger than the Hubble or the James Webb can. For three months, it will hunt for previously undiscovered space objects. Its antenna will send pictures and data back to Earth at record speed. Jared Isaacman, NASA administrator, says it “will give us a new atlas of the universe.”