The former is meant to image extremely wide sections of the cosmos to capture tons of fleeting phenomena that are hard to catch — things like supernovas, fast radio bursts and maybe even colliding neutron stars.
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Monisha Ravisetti,
Space.com,
30 Aug. 2026
This experimental, eclipse-creating coronagraph will allow Roman to directly image any planet, however faint, that might be orbiting the masked star.
The Habitable Worlds Observatory would be the first designed to photograph Earth-like planets — and even search for chemical signs of life within the atmospheres of those planets.
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Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
30 Aug. 2026
Before the estate sales and packing up, professional pictures can preserve the little details that many of us never think to photograph.
Above, the actor is pictured in a scene from 1978’s Days Of Heaven,’ alongside Brooke Adams.
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Stephanie Sengwe,
PEOPLE,
31 Aug. 2026
After years spent teasing a legally impossible third term, Trump is now describing life after January 2029, picturing himself at home as a successor claims credit.
Any oversight effort, if Democrats retake power in Washington come November, could scrutinize the office’s unprecedented pursuit of government stakes in private firms.
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Eleanor Mueller,
semafor.com,
2 Sep. 2026
The latest polls show the president’s approval rating sinking to new lows as Democrats appear increasingly likely to retake majority control of at least one chamber of Congress.
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