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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 subtle changes in brightness. Find out more in this interactive.