Elijah Tan
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Elijah Tan was an Editorial Intern at Encyclopædia Britannica in 2026. He is studying Astrophysics and Science Communication at the University of Chicago, where he writes for the Chicago Maroon. As a long-time consumer and creator of comics, he is interested in using multimedia tools to tell stories about science. He was born and raised in Singapore.
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The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will help scientists determine how common Earth-like worlds are in our galaxy. It will hunt for planets beyond our solar system, known as exoplanets, using a technique called microlensing. Doing so will require monitoring hundreds of millions of stars for…
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How the Roman Space Telescope will find new exoplanets
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