NuSTAR - a New X-Ray Telescope | Science News | Naked Scientists

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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