NASA’s Roman telescope just opened its planet-hunting eye
NASA's Roman Space Telescope has shown impressive precision and taken its first observations with a powerful planet-imaging tool. The telescope can aim accurately at distant targets like aiming a laser beam. It also captured clear images of stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Why it's good news: It shows that this state-of-the-art space telescope is functioning as intended, paving the way for its future discoveries about the universe and potentially even exoplanets.
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