NuSTAR - a New X-Ray Telescope

This month saw the launcg of NuSTAR, a new x-ray telescope that should detect "hard" x-rays, from some of the most violent events in the universe...

25 June 2012

By Carolin Crawford.

Part of the show Plant Pathogens Observed From Orbit

NuSTAR

Artist's concept of NuSTAR on orbit. NuSTAR has a 10-m (30') mast that deploys after launch to separate the optics modules (right) from the detectors in the focal plane (left). The spacecraft, which controls NuSTAR's pointings, and the solar panels...

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CC0 - NASA/JPL-Caltech

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