WATCH LIVE: NASA's newest space telescope launches today
Summary
The tour-bus-sized telescope aims to unravel cosmic mysteries and identify more than 100,000 planets beyond our solar system.
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<img src='https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/1920x1222+0+0/resize/1920x1222!/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F3c%2F9a%2Fcb526b804616838739211e49a965%2Fnhq202608290004-large.jpg' alt='NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, perched atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, is seen at sunrise at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.'/>The tour-bus-sized telescope aims to unravel cosmic mysteries and identify more than 100,000 planets beyond our solar system.
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