# NASA’s powerful new telescope launches to transform our understanding of the universe

https://mins.news/en/item/38773

- BBC Chinese, 2026-08-31 13:34 UTC
- Science
- Original: https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/articles/cqlwd2w1vnlo/trad?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

> NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center on August 30. It will survey huge areas of the sky, cataloguing vast numbers of stars, planets and galaxies while helping scientists investigate exoplanets, cosmic evolution, dark matter and dark energy.

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