NASA's Roman Telescope embarks on three-month journey to gravitational balance point
The Nancy Grace Roman Telescope launched yesterday and is traveling to the second sun-Earth Lagrange point, about a million miles away. At L2, gravitational forces from the sun and Earth balance, allowing stable orbits. The telescope will survey vast regions of space, aiming to study dark energy and exoplanets.
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