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Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches 9 months ahead of schedule

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket nine months early. It survived budget-cut attempts to study dark matter and find distant planets.

Why it mattersRoman will help answer a fundamental question: will dark energy, which pushes the universe apart, essentially win out over dark matter, which pulls it together? Finding planets around other stars is also the first step to detecting signs of alien life.

AustraliaNo immediate Australian impact, but Australians benefit from NASA space missions through shared scientific data and discoveries that shape our understanding of physics and the cosmos.

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