NuSTAR Bringing the High Energy Universe into Focus

NASA has announced the eighth 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 eighth cycle of the NuSTAR GO program are due on January 28th, 2022.

With the goal of understanding why the Sun’s corona is so much hotter than its surface, NuSTAR obtained high-energy X-ray observations of the solar corona in coordination with the July 30th suborbital sounding rocket flight of the Marshall Grazing Incidence X-ray Spectrometer (MaGIXS) low-energy X-ray instrument.

For the first time, astronomers have singled out light coming from behind a black hole, enabling them to study the processes on its far side.