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What are dark matter and dark energy?

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How common are planetary
arrangements like our own?

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And how many planets in our galaxy
have the potential to harbor life?

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The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

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 will help answer these fundamental questions.

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Each image from its Wide Field
Instrument will have the depth and clarity

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of Hubble's best,
but capture a sky area 100 times larger.

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The Roman Space Telescope
will take the lead

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in exploring dark energy and dark matter.

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We only know they exist by their effects on observable matter,

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yet these two mysterious components
make up 95% of the universe.

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The Roman Space Telescope’s
powerful 2.4-meter mirror, 

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and enormous field of view, will also help us
in the search for planets

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beyond our solar system, or exoplanets.

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To deepen its study of exoplanets,
the Roman Space Telescope will house

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a beyond state-of-the-art coronagraph
that will directly image and analyze

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Neptune-sized planets in orbits
slightly larger than Earth's —

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a dramatic improvement over current capabilities.

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The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

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will help us answer many
of the biggest cosmic questions.

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Roman will be an indispensable
part of space science

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during the next decade and beyond.

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[NASA]