The telescope, which will park itself in orbit beyond the moon, is designed to investigate cosmic enigmas such as dark energy and dark matter. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched from Florida on Sunday, beginning a mission to survey vast swathes of the sky and test whether the standard model of the universe still holds up. Key points and original sources are listed below.

• The telescope, which will park itself in orbit beyond the moon, is designed to investigate cosmic enigmas such as dark energy and dark matter.S1

• The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched from Florida on Sunday, beginning a mission to survey vast swathes of the sky and test whether the standard model of the universe still holds up.S2

• NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is on a mission to probe dark energy, hunt for distant worlds and transform our view of the universeS3

• NASA’s Roman Space Telescope has launched on a million mile journey to L2, where it will scan huge portions of the cosmos for clues about dark matter, dark energy, and distant worlds. With survey speeds roughly 1,000 times faster than Hubble and a torrent of 1...S4