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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Julia Musto

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope will transform our view of the cosmos like never before. The science behind it is under threat

A stunning new telescope will help NASA scientists study and identify 100,000 exoplanets, hundreds of millions of galaxies, billions of stars and rare objects and phenomena that astronomers have never seen before.

But the Trump administration’s newly proposed budget cuts threaten to extinguish the science behind the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope before it even launches, as well as future missions to solve the mystery of the cosmos.

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