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NuSTAR, NASA’s Black Hole Hunter, Set To Launch

NuSTAR, NASA’s Black Hole Hunter, Set To Launch

In search of distant black holes, NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) high-energy X-ray telescope spacecraft will soon launch with a mission to map radioactive material in young supernovae remnants studying the origins of cosmic rays and the extreme physics around collapsed stars.

Scheduled to launch June 13, NuSTAR will peer into space, conducting a census for black holes, and returning unprecedented high-res images of the mysterious compact masses.

NuSTAR has a 10-meter mast that deploys after launch to separate the optics modules, seen on the right, from the detectors in the focal plane on the left.

100x better sensitivity, 10x sharper resolution

These two images show NuSTAR’s dramatic capabilities to translate high-energy X-ray light into images.

The image on the left, taken by the European Space Agency’s INTEGRAL satellite, shows “unresolved,” X-ray light, meaning the images are low-res and unable to depict objects with any degree of accuracy useful to science.

The image of the right, however, is a simulated view of the kind of resolution NuSTAR will provide, able to identify individual black holes with 100 times better sensitivity and 10 times sharper resolution.

Launch and orbital insertion

This graphic depicts the launch and orbital insertion of the NuSTAR along with the Pegasus XL rocket.

NuSTAR is a Small Explorer mission led by the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington.

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