NASA's New Telescope Is Basically a Giant Eyeball for Finding Alien Fireflies
NASA's Roman Space Telescope aims to catch alien planets in visible light, because spotting a firefly next to a searchlight from miles away is apparently our best bet.
NASA's Roman Space Telescope aims to catch alien planets in visible light, because spotting a firefly next to a searchlight from miles away is apparently our best bet.
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Hubble gets a head start cataloging millions of stars in the Milky Way’s bulge so Roman can swoop in and find exoplanets, rogue planets, and black holes without getting lost in the crowd.
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