Images | NuSTAR

Tracing Titanium's Escape

Chart • May 7, 2015

The plot of data from NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR (right), amounts to a "smoking gun" of evidence in the mystery of how massive stars explode. The observations indicate that supernovae belonging to a class called Type II or core-collapse blast apart in a lopsided fashion, with the core of the star hurtling in one direction, and the ejected material mostly expanding the other way (see diagram at left).

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The Answer Is Blowing in the Black Hole Wind

Chart • February 19, 2015

This plot of data from two space telescopes, NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array and the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton determines for the first time the shape of ultra-fast winds from supermassive black holes, or quasars.

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Mass Chart for Dead Stars and Black Holes

Chart • October 8, 2014

This chart illustrates the relative masses of super-dense cosmic objects, ranging from white dwarfs to the supermassive black holes encased in the cores of most galaxies.

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Big, Spinning Black Hole Blurs Light

Chart • August 12, 2014

This plot of data captured by NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, shows X-ray light streaming from regions near a supermassive black hole known as Markarian 335.

The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array science operations center is located on the campus of the California Institute of Technology

NuSTAR Bringing the High Energy Universe into Focus

Tracing Titanium's Escape

The Answer Is Blowing in the Black Hole Wind

Mass Chart for Dead Stars and Black Holes

Big, Spinning Black Hole Blurs Light