NASA’s newest space telescope launches on a quest to explore the hidden universe
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s newest crown jewel blasted off Sunday to hunt for planets around other stars, explore secret dark energy and survey the cosmos like never before. SpaceX launched the $4.3 billion Roman Space Telescope shortly after daybreak aboard a triple-the-firepower Falcon Heavy rocket. Roman blazed toward an observation point 1 million miles away that’s home to the Webb Space Telescope, one of NASA’s other big-ticket eyes in the sky. The bus-sized telescope — named after the late Nancy Grace Roman, NASA’s first chief astronomer — will take more ...
