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Do Black Holes Come in Size Medium?

News Release • November 26, 2013

In the stockroom of our cosmos, black holes come in size small and large. NASA's NuSTAR is helping to find our more about why medium-sized black holes are missing.

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NASA Sees 'Watershed' Cosmic Blast in Unique Detail

Feature Story • November 21, 2013

A trio of NASA satellites, working in concert with ground-based robotic telescopes, captured never-before-seen details that challenge current theoretical understandings of how gamma-ray bursts work.

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Catching Black Holes on the Fly

News Release • September 5, 2013

NASA's black-hole-hunter spacecraft, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has "bagged" its first 10 supermassive black holes.

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NuSTAR Delivers the X-Ray Goods

News Release • August 29, 2013

NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, is giving the wider astronomical community a first look at its unique X-ray images of the cosmos.

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The Turbulent, High-Energy Sky is Keeping NuSTAR Busy

News Release • June 17, 2013

Like "things that go bump in the night," a few high-energy events in the universe have captured the attention of the NuSTAR telescope.

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Black Hole Naps Amidst Stellar Chaos

News Release • June 11, 2013

NASA's NuSTAR space telescope has found evidence of a slumbering massive black hole in a galaxy bursting with new stars.

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NASA's NuSTAR Helps Solve Riddle of Black Hole Spin

News Release • February 27, 2013

Two X-ray space observatories, NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) and the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton, have teamed up to measure definitively, for the first time, the spin rate of a black hole with a mass 2 million times that of our sun.

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NASA Hosts Media Teleconference About Black Hole Studies

News Release • February 25, 2013

NASA will host a news teleconference at 10 a.m. PST, Wednesday, Feb. 27, to announce black hole observations from its newest X-ray telescope, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, and the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton X-ray telescope.

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Good Progress With NuSTAR Science Goals

News Release • February 21, 2013

NuSTAR has been in orbit around Earth for more than eight months since its launch in June 2012, studying black holes and probing the nature of the high-energy X-ray universe.

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NASA's NuSTAR Catches Black Holes in Galaxy Web

News Release • January 7, 2013

NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, set its X-ray eyes on a spiral galaxy and caught the brilliant glow of two black holes lurking inside.

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Learning from the NuSTAR Launch Delay

Feature Story • November 27, 2012

The story of that delay, why it happened and what both NASA and Orbital Sciences learned from the experience.

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Pointing the Telescope & Probing the X-ray Sky

News Release • November 20, 2012

Since the science operations began on August 1st, the NuSTAR team has wrestled with learning to point the telescope's flexible system of optics, mast, spacecraft bus and solar array.

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NASA's NuSTAR Spots Flare From Milky Way's Black Hole

News Release • October 23, 2012

NASA's newest set of X-ray eyes in the sky, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, has caught its first look at the giant black hole parked at the center of our galaxy.

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Black Holes: Objects of Attraction

Feature Story • September 25, 2012

Ever since Princeton physicist John Wheeler coined the term nearly 50 years ago, black holes have evoked a sense of mystery and wonder for astronomers and space enthusiasts. But unlike comets, stars and other beautiful objects in the night sky, black holes can't actually be seen – they trap light, after all.

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NuSTAR Celebrates First 100 Days

News Release • September 20, 2012

Sept. 21, 2012, will mark 100 days since NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, launched into space from the L-1011 "Stargazer" aircraft.

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Space Telescope Opens Its X-Ray Eyes

News Release • June 28, 2012

NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has snapped its first test images of the sizzling high-energy X-ray universe.

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NuSTAR Mission Status Report

News Release • June 27, 2012

After deploying its mast, the NuSTAR observatory began a series of checkout procedures.

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Observatory Unfurls its Unique Mast

News Release • June 21, 2012

NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has successfully deployed its lengthy mast, giving it the ability to see the highest energy X-rays in our universe.

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NASA's NuSTAR Mission Lifts Off

News Release • June 13, 2012

NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array launched into the morning skies over the central Pacific Ocean at 9 a.m. PDT Wednesday, beginning its mission to unveil secrets of buried black holes and other exotic objects.

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NuSTAR to Drop From Plane and Rocket Into Space

News Release • June 11, 2012

The observatory, which will hunt for black holes and other exotic objects using specialized X-ray eyes, will be launched from a Pegasus XL rocket carried by an Orbital Science Corporation L-1011 "Stargazer" plane.

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NuSTAR Arrives at Island Launch Site

News Release • June 7, 2012

NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, and its rocket flew above the palm trees to arrive at their launch location at the U.S. Army's Reagan test site at Kwajalein Atoll.

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NASA to Host News Teleconference About NuSTAR Launch

News Release • June 6, 2012

NASA will host a news teleconference at noon PDT (3 p.m. EDT) June 11 to discuss the upcoming launch of its Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array observatory, scheduled for no earlier than 8:30 a.m. PDT (11:30 a.m. EDT) June 13.

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NuSTAR to Open X-ray Eyes on Universe

Feature Story • June 5, 2012

NASA's next observatory is about the size of a refrigerator, but it is expected to uncover some of the most powerful structures in the universe.

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NuSTAR Strapped to its Plane

News Release • June 4, 2012

NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, is now perched atop its Pegasus XL rocket, strapped to the plane that will carry the mission to an airborne launch.

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NASA is Preparing to Launch its Newest Observatory with X-Ray Eyes

News Release • May 30, 2012

NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, is being prepared for the final journey to its launch pad on Kwajalein Atoll in the central Pacific Ocean.

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