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NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has demonstrated remarkable pointing stability and captured its first images using its planet-imaging coronagraph, achieving precision comparable to aiming a laser at a dime from 150 miles away. The instrument also captured stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud, confirming its imaging capabilities. The milestone marks a key step toward the telescope's planned mission of directly imaging exoplanets, further expanding humanity's toolkit for studying worlds beyond our solar system.
Sources:ScienceDaily