NASA NuSTAR mission

NASA NuSTAR mission

@NASANuSTAR

NuSTAR will be first focusing high energy X-ray mission, searching for black holes, mapping supernovae, and studying the most extreme active galaxies.

Orbiting Earth's equator · http://www.nustar.caltech.edu

Tweets

  1. 14h

    Active galaxy expert Greg Madejski has been honored as Professor of the Polish Academy of Sciences

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  2. 22 Jan

    RT : Looking for unique resources? Check out Wavelength, a new online collection

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  3. 11 Jan

    Great story from LA Times' about NuSTAR's new pretty pics

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  4. 11 Jan

    Royal Astronomical Society honors Roger Blandford with Astronomy Gold Medal for his lifetime achievements

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  5. 7 Jan

    New pictures from NuSTAR show blazing black holes in galactic web, and sizzling remains of a dead star.

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  6. 20 Nov

    Interesting article about our launch delay is now at NASA's ASK magazine

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  7. 20 Nov

    NuSTAR team has been busy learning to point the telescope and observing extreme objects. See new mission update:

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  8. 12 Nov

    Current target: NGC 4151, one of the first known extra-galactic x-ray emitters. When the central BH flares, its disk echoes!

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  9. 29 Oct

    Filling in missing pieces of the puzzle - NuSTAR's view of the flare from our Galaxy's central black hole -

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  10. 23 Oct

    Newest NuSTAR image catches rare flare from the usually quiet BH in the center of our Milky Way galaxy

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  11. 25 Sep

    This week's special NuSTAR edition of Epo's Chronicles discusses Wolter mirrors, extendable masts and X-rays

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  12. 25 Sep

    Read more about tonight's hangout with NuSTAR's Harrison and Craig - plus preview KQED Black Hole TV show

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  13. 25 Sep

    Tonight 9/25 630 PM PDT: hangout with NuSTAR's Fiona Harrison and Bill Craig as they discuss black holes with KQED

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  14. 24 Sep

    Now observing: PG1700+518, a supermassive black hole in the center of a galaxy that is blowing off wind from its accretion disk

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  15. 20 Sep

    As scientific observations continue, we celebrate 100 days in orbit with a new graphic and update

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  16. 20 Sep

    Her X-1's X-ray intensity is modulated every 35 d, due to the precession of the disk of swirling material falling onto the neutron star

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  17. 20 Sep

    Currently observing Her X-1, an x-ray binary with a 1.2 s pulsing neutron star that is eclipsed every 1.7 d, discovered by Uhuru in 1971

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  18. 17 Sep

    Learn more about black holes with NuSTAR's Fiona Harrison and Bill Craig in a Google+ hangout 9/25 630PM PDT

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  19. 30 Aug

    Next up: a starburst galaxy where rapidly evolving stars produce x-ray emitting black holes and neutron stars

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  20. 30 Aug

    NuSTAR project scientist Daniel Stern discovers millions of black hole candidates using !

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