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'A glorious dawn launch': NASA's newest space telescope has left the Earth

NPR Science · August 30, 2026 at 6:30 AM

'A glorious dawn launch': NASA's newest space telescope has left the Earth

The tour-bus-sized telescope aims to unravel cosmic mysteries and identify more than 100,000 planets beyond our solar system. (Image credit: John Kraus)

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