Sunday, February 12, 2012

NASA’s New Eyes in the Sky

NASA’s New Eyes in the Sky:

An artist's concept of NuSTAR in space. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Orbital

On March 14, NASA will launch the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array or NuSTAR. This is the first time a telescope will focus on high energy X-rays, effectively opening up the sky for more sensitive study. The telescope will target black holes, supernova explosions, and will study the most extreme active galaxies. NuSTAR’s use of high-energy X-rays have an added bonus: it will be able to capture and compose the most detailed images ever taken in this end of the electromagnetic spectrum. (...)
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