NuSTAR Discovers Pulsar Powering Intense Gamma Rays
Using NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, astronomers have discovered a pulsar spinning five times per second and the ultimate power source of both the high-energy…
Using NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, astronomers have discovered a pulsar spinning five times per second and the ultimate power source of both the high-energy…
NuSTAR observations reveal X-ray light streaming from regions near supermassive black hole Markarian 335. NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) has captured an extreme and…
NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array untangles the mysteries of what happens to stars when they explode. One of the biggest mysteries in astronomy, how stars…
New images from NASA’s NuSTAR show the energized remains of a dead star and distant black holes buried in blankets of dust. Two new views…
In two new studies, astronomers examine black holes in the Circinus galaxy and spiral galaxy NGC 1313, searching for evidence of medium-sized black holes. Black…
In a new study, scientists report on the first ten identifications of sources serendipitously detected by NuSTAR. NASA’s black-hole-hunter spacecraft, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array,…
This composite image from NASA’s NuSTAR and the European Southern Observatory shows the Sculptor galaxy, also known as NGC 253. The Sculptor galaxy is seen…
The first batch of data from NASA’s NuSTAR is now publicly available, providing data on observations obtained during the first two months of the mission…
NuSTAR data reveals that the once active supermassive black hole at the center of the Sculptor galaxy, also known as NGC 253, is now dormant,…
Using the NuSTAR and XMM-Newton telescopes, researchers traced matter as it swirled into a black hole, resolving a long-standing debate about black holes and gaining…
NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array is providing scientists with greater sensitivity and imaging capability and giving them new information on a wide array of cosmic…
Using the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, astrophysicists will scan debris from supernovas to better understand how they work and use that information to figure out…
NASA’s NuSTAR mission is scheduled to launch from Kwajalein Atoll in the central Pacific Ocean on June 13, providing researchers with sharp images of black…
By the standards of space-based astronomy, NASA’s new NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array) telescope that will be launched later this month has a modest budget…
NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) has a total of 9,000 individual mirror segments that are only 200 microns thick and will be the first…
NASAA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, is one step closer to its March launch. The NuSTAR was shipped to the Vandenberg Air Force Base…