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The Milky Way's Center is a Difficult Target, But It Can't Deter the Roman Telescope
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Universe Today
Despite the US administration's threats to cancel the nearly complete Nancy Grace Roman Telescope, it's on track to launch this year or next.
While we've learned a lot about the galactic exoplanet population, especially from NASA's Kepler and TESS missions, they both relied on the transit method.
That means our sample of the exoplanet population is biased, a problem that was understood during these missions' design phases.
We lack detailed knowledge about the stellar population in the region, and have almost zero knowledge of the exoplanet population.
This image is a simulated image of what the Roman Telescope will see when it probes the region.