Shape-shifting mirrors on NASA’s new space telescope could unveil Jupiters like our own

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When NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches, as early as the end of next month, it will attempt one of astronomy’s most precise disappearing acts to date.

The telescope will carry the first space-bound “active” coronagraph, an instrument that effectively erases most of the light from a star during photography.

It will allow astronomers…

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