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‘Cosmic dawn’: NASA’s Rome Space Telescope will take baby photos of our universe

When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. A drawing shows what the universe might look like when it’s less than 1 billion years old. | Credit: NASA, ESA and A. Schaller (for STScI) When NASA’s next great extraterrestrial observatory, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, opens… Read More »

Are the voids in the Andromeda galaxy filled with dark matter? This NASA telescope can find out

Images created by NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could allow scientists to search for dark matter among stars. An international team of researchers believes that gaps in strings of stars hanging from tightly packed balls of ancient stellar bodies, called globular clusters, may be affected by clumps of dark matter. So far astronomers… Read More »