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The Nancy Grace Roman space telescope successfully launched from Kennedy Space Center on Florida's Space Coast Sunday morning. The telescope lifted off at 7:26 a.m. aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket ...

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The tour-bus-sized telescope aims to unravel cosmic mysteries and identify more than 100,000 planets beyond our solar system.