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NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is poised to make a major leap in the hunt for worlds outside our solar system, known as exoplanets. Scientists expect the mission to reveal around 100,000 worlds—a staggering leap compared to the nearly 6,300 found so far thanks to NASA missions working in tandem with other observatories. And Roman will primarily find them in underexplored regions of the Milky Way.

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[-] kittenroar@beehaw.org 1 points 1 week ago

Potentially -- although if signs of intelligent life were found, there would be no way of knowing if it's still there, if it's a million light years away.

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