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January 9th, 2014
High-Energy X-ray View of 'Hand of God'
Can you see the shape of a hand in this new X-ray image? The hand might look like an X-ray from the doctor's office, but it is actually a cloud of material ejected from a star that exploded. NASA's...
Star > Evolutionary Stage > Neutron Star > Pulsar
November 26th, 2013
Black Holes of the Circinus Galaxy
The magenta spots in this image show two black holes in the Circinus galaxy: the supermassive black hole at its heart, and a smaller one closer to the edge that belongs to a class called...
Galaxy > Type > Spiral
November 26th, 2013
The magenta spots in this image show two black holes in the spiral galaxy called NGC 1313, or the Topsy Turvy galaxy. Both black holes belong to a class called ultraluminous X-ray sources, or ULXs....
Galaxy > Type > Spiral
September 5th, 2013
Black Holes Shine for NuSTAR (annotated)
An optical color image of galaxies is seen here overlaid with X-ray data (magenta) from NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR).
NuSTAR's serendipitous discovery in this field,...
Galaxy > Type > Spiral
September 5th, 2013
An optical color image of galaxies is seen here overlaid with X-ray data (magenta) from NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR).
NuSTAR's serendipitous discovery in this field lies...
Galaxy > Type > Spiral
September 5th, 2013
Black Holes Shine for NuSTAR in X-Rays
An X-ray image of galaxies is seen here from NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR).
NuSTAR's serendipitous discovery in this field lies to the left of the brighter X-ray source...
Galaxy > Type > Spiral
June 13th, 2013
Celebrating NuSTAR’s First Birthday
On June 13, 2013 scientists and friends of NuSTAR celebrated the first anniversary of the successful launch and deployment of the instrument. Members of the NuSTAR team at the California Institute...
June 13th, 2013
Celebrating NuSTAR’s first birthday
To celebrate the one year anniversary of the successful launch of NuSTAR into orbit, scientists, friends and their families of the mission gathered at the California Institute of Technology...
June 11th, 2013
Sculptor Galaxy Shines with X-rays
The Sculptor galaxy is seen in a new light, in this composite image from NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) and the European Southern Observatory in Chile. Visible data from the...
Galaxy > Type > Spiral
June 11th, 2013
Sculptor Galaxy Shines with X-rays
The Sculptor galaxy is seen in a new light, in this composite image from NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR). The NuSTAR data, which appear as colored blobs, show high-energy...
Galaxy > Type > Spiral
February 27th, 2013
This image taken by the ultraviolet-light monitoring camera on the European Space Agency's (ESA's) XMM-Newton telescope shows the beautiful spiral arms of the galaxy NGC1365. Copious high-energy...
Galaxy > Type > Spiral
February 27th, 2013
Scientists measure the spin rates of supermassive black holes by spreading the X-ray light into different colors. The light comes from accretion disks that swirl around black holes, as shown in...
Star > Evolutionary Stage > Black Hole
February 27th, 2013
How to Measure the Spin of a Black Hole
Black holes are tremendous objects whose immense gravity can distort and twist space-time, the fabric that shapes our universe. These effects, consequences of Einstein's general theory of...
Star > Evolutionary Stage > Black Hole
February 21st, 2013
Black Holes: Monsters in Space
This artist's concept illustrates a supermassive black hole with millions to billions times the mass of our sun. Supermassive black holes are enormously dense objects buried at the hearts of...
Star > Evolutionary Stage > Black Hole
January 7th, 2013
Blazing Black Holes Spotted in Spiral Beauty
This new view of spiral galaxy IC 342, also known as Caldwell 5, includes data from NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR. High-energy X-ray data from NuSTAR have been translated...
Galaxy > Type > Spiral
January 7th, 2013
Sizzling X-ray Remains of a Dead Star
This new view of the historical supernova remnant Cassiopeia A, located 11,000 light-years away, was taken by NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR. Blue indicates the highest...
Nebula > Type > Supernova Remnant
January 7th, 2013
Sizzling Remains of a Dead Star
This new view of the historical supernova remnant Cassiopeia A, located 11,000 light-years away, was taken by NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR. Blue indicates the highest...
Nebula > Type > Supernova Remnant
January 7th, 2013
Blazing Black Holes Spotted in X-ray View of Galaxy IC 342
This new view of spiral galaxy IC 342, also known as Caldwell 5, shows data from NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR. High-energy X-ray data from NuSTAR have been translated to...
Galaxy > Type > Spiral
October 23rd, 2012
Pointing X-ray Eyes at our Resident Supermassive Black Hole
NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has captured these first, focused views of the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy in high-energy X-ray light. The background...
Galaxy > Component > Center/Core
October 23rd, 2012
X-ray Flare at the Center of the Milky Way
NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has captured these first, focused views of the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy in high-energy X-ray light. This is the...
Galaxy > Component > Center/Core
October 23rd, 2012
First Look at Milky Way's Monster in High-Energy X-ray Light
This is the first, focused high-energy X-ray view of the area surrounding the supermassive black hole, called Sagittarius A*, at the center of our galaxy. The image was taken by NASA's black-hole...
Galaxy > Component > Center/Core
June 28th, 2012
NuSTAR's First View of High-Energy X-ray Universe
NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has taken its first snapshots of the highest energy X-rays in the cosmos, the same kind used by doctors to take pictures of your bones....
Star > Evolutionary Stage > Black Hole
June 28th, 2012
NuSTAR saw first light on June 28th, 2012, observing the Galactic black-hole Cygnus X-1. This poster commemorates that event and was signed by the NuSTAR scientists working at University of...
June 13th, 2012
Two of the youngest members of the extended NuSTAR team are posing in front of a to-scale model of the satellite, only minutes before launch. The launch was eagerly watched by the whole...
June 13th, 2012
All eyes are fixed in anticipation on the monitor showing the NuSTAR’s launch rocket under the belly of the L-1011 carrier plane.
June 13th, 2012
A packed auditorium at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) gives a thumps-up for the successful launch of NuSTAR.
June 11th, 2012
Member of the NuSTAR team at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) put up a large decal on the wall of the Science Operation Center (SOC). From the SOC the team monitors the health of...
May 1st, 2012
Artist's concept of NuSTAR on orbit. NuSTAR has a 10-m (30') mast that deployed after launch to separate the optics modules (right) from the detectors in the focal plane (left). The spacecraft,...
Technology > Observatory
May 1st, 2012
Artist's concept of NuSTAR in orbit. NuSTAR has a 10-m (30') mast that was deployed after launch to separate the optics modules (right) from the detectors in the focal plane (left). The spacecraft,...
Technology > Observatory
January 27th, 2012
NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), enclosed in an environmentally controlled shipping container, is trucked by trailer to processing facility 1555 at Vandenberg Air Force Base...
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