NuSTAR Bringing the High Energy Universe into Focus

NASA has announced the seventh opportunity for scientists around the world to propose for observations using the NuSTAR X-ray space telescope. This General 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 seventh cycle of the NuSTAR GO program are due on January 29th, 2021.

NuSTAR detects after-flare caused by black hole crashing through the accretion disk of a more massive black hole.

Astronomers have used NASA’s NuSTAR to weigh nearly two dozen extremely magnetic dead stars and found that they are heavier than expected.