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00:02NASA launched the $4 billion Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope from Florida on Sunday
00:08aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy, according to Benzinga.
00:12The mission is sending the observatory toward Lagrange Point 2, about 1 million miles from Earth.
00:17A SpaceX Falcon Heavy launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center after weather conditions improved.
00:24Roman is designed to study dark energy, dark matter, and exoplanets
00:27while surveying large areas of the sky faster than existing space telescopes.
00:32NASA said Roman can map the Milky Way in one month,
00:36a task that would take Hubble about a century while maintaining image quality.
00:41The telescope's flagship survey is expected to chart more than 2 billion galaxies in three dimensions
00:47and help researchers study the universe's accelerating expansion.
00:52NASA also expects Roman to discover thousands of planets beyond the solar system
00:56during its planned five-year mission.
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