SCIENCE -INFRARED EYES- SPECIAL : SPACE

NASA is preparing to launch the Roman Space Telescope, named after Nancy Grace Roman, the agency's first chief astronomer, no later than May 2027.

But it plans to move the telescope to Kennedy Space Center in Florida in the summer for liftoff as early as the fall.

Astronomers will use the Roman Telescope's infrared vision to map billions of galaxies, data that will help them learn more about dark energy.

Construction of the telescope was completed just months after astronomers uncovered evidence that dark energy is more complex than previously understood.

The telescope will also help researchers hunt for exoplanets and study the swirling disks of cosmic matter in which they form, expanding our catalog of other worlds in the Milky Way.

Some of these planets may be orbiting within a star's habitable zone or may have gone entirely rogue,  existing in the galaxy unattached to any host star.

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