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Ten Years of High-Energy Universe in Focus: NuSTAR 2022

Announcement • June 20, 2022

The Ten years of High-Energy Universe in Focus: NuSTAR 2022 meeting will be held in Cagliari, Italy on June 20–22, 2022. Registration is open now!

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NuSTAR GO cycle-8 selection announced

Announcement • April 22, 2022

The selection of proposals for NuSTAR General Observer (GO) cycle-8 has been announced. 81 proposals were selected from the 165 proposals submitted to cycle-8 and include joint coordinated observations with the XMM-Newton, Gehrels-Swift, and NICER observatories.

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NuSTAR GO cycle-7 proposal selection announced

Announcement • April 26, 2021

The NuSTAR General Observer (GO) cycle-7 proposal selection has been released. The full list of proposals, targets, and exposure times is available from the NuSTAR GO website at HEASARC. Cycle-7 observations are planned to commence on June 1st, 2021.

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NUC self nominations 2020

Announcement • September 4, 2020

NuSTAR is seeking letters of self-nomination for people to rotate onto the NuSTAR Users' Committee (NUC). The NUC provides community advice and feedback to the project and NASA Headquarters, and helps ensure the interests of the guest investigator community are well-served by the project. Due date for self nomination letters is October 2nd, 2020.

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NuSTARDAS v1.9.2 released

Announcement • April 13, 2020

An update to the NuSTAR data analysis software (NuSTARDAS) v1.9.2 was released with HEASoft patch v6.27.1 on April 13th, 2020. This NuSTARDAS update is required for analysis of observations performed after March 16th, 2020.

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NuSTAR operations nominal during COVID-19 crisis

Announcement • March 29, 2020

NuSTAR observatory operations are continuing during the COVID-19 pandemic with staff from the Science and Mission Operations Centers (Caltech and UC Berkeley) supporting the mission remotely.

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NuSTAR Now Accepting Cycle 4 Proposals

Announcement • November 20, 2017

NASA has announced the fourth opportunity for scientists around the world to propose for observations using the NuSTAR X-ray space telescope. This Guest Observer (GO) Program is part of an extended mission plan approved by NASA that offers observing time for basic research investigations selected in a competitive process. Proposals for observations to be made within the four cycle of the NuSTAR GO program are due on Jan 19, 2018. Click through for more information.

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NuSTAR Featured in a Documentary on the Science of Interstellar

Announcement • October 30, 2014

NuSTAR featured in Discovery Channel documentary called 'The Science of Interstellar'. Matthew McConaughey narrates this behind-the-scenes look at the epic voyage to deep space depicted in the movie Interstellar. Director Christopher Nolan worked with top physicists to create a realistic trip to distant solar systems.

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NASA Holds Teleconference on NuSTAR Discovery

Announcement • October 6, 2014

NASA will host a news teleconference at 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT) Wednesday, Oct. 8, to announce new findings from its Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) mission. The results describe an unusual source of X-rays that will leave theorists scratching their heads, but also will help astronomers learn more about how black holes and galaxies are formed.

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NuSTAR team members attended the COSPAR conference in Moscow

Announcement • August 7, 2014

Special sessions on NuSTAR highlighted the results from the baseline mission.

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