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Robert Lea

NASA's Roman Space Telescope could discover 100,000 new cosmic explosions: 'We're definitely expecting the unexpected'

(Main) An illustration shows two neutron stars colliding and merging, creating a kilonova explosion. (Inset) The Nancy Grace Roman space telescope will hunt these and many more types of cosmic explosions.

It's little wonder that astronomers are excited for the launch of NASA's next big space telescope project, the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope.

Recent research has suggested that Roman, currently set to launch no later than May 2027, will discover as many as 100,000 powerful cosmic explosions as it conducts the High-Latitude Time-Domain Survey observation program.

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