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- NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will measure seismic waves from over 300,000 red giant stars, producing the largest asteroseismic sample to date.
- It will conduct the Galactic Bulge Time-Domain Survey, observing millions of stars to search for exoplanets via gravitational microlensing.
- Researchers anticipate the sample could include up to 648,000 red giants.
- The data will improve understanding of star properties and planetary systems and reveal the Milky Way's history.
