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'It is something we must know before we go where no man has gone before': Readers react to NASA's Roman telescope mission

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'It is something we must know before we go where no man has gone before': Readers react to NASA's Roman telescope mission
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Moving toward Lagrange point L2 around a million miles (1.6 million kilometers) from Earth, NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is about to begin its study of our universe. Launched on Aug. 30, the space telescope has already released its first images before its 300-megapixel camera is fully calibrated, capturing clusters of stars as blurry green rings. Once Roman's Wide Field Instrument is fully functional, the telescope should produce images as crisp as those from the Hubble Space Telesco

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