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WATCH LIVE: NASA successfully launches its newest space telescope

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

WATCH LIVE: NASA successfully launches its newest space telescope

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

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