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Shape-shifting mirrors on NASA’s new space telescope could unveil Jupiters like our own
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, launching soon, will use an active coronagraph to block starlight and capture images of exoplanets similar to those in our solar system. It features a 300-megapixel camera for wide-field imaging and aims to study dark matter, dark energy, and detect thousands of new exoplanets.
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