NuSTAR Bringing the High Energy Universe into Focus

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Fu, Harrison, and Preskill Elected to the National Academy of Sciences

Feature Story • April 30, 2014

Three professors at Caltech have been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences. The announcement was made Tuesday, April 29, in Washington D.C. The new Caltech electees are Gregory C. Fu, Altair Professor of Chemistry; Fiona A. Harrison, Benjamin M. Rosen Professor of Physics; and John P. Preskill, Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics.

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Caltech Faculty Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Feature Story • April 28, 2014

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences has elected three Caltech faculty members as academy fellows. They are John F. Brady, Chevron Professor of Chemical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and executive officer for chemical engineering; Kenneth A. Farley, W. M. Keck Foundation Professor of Geochemistry and chair of the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences; and Fiona A. Harrison, Benjamin M. Rosen Professor of Physics.

Two Students from Long Island Win Top Intel Awards

Feature Story • March 11, 2014

Two high school seniors from Long Island are among the top 10 winners named Tuesday night in the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search competition, chosen from among 40 finalists across the country competing in Washington, D.C.

Professor Nabs Award for Space Research

Feature Story • February 26, 2014

In the constellation Virgo, 2.5 billion light years away from Earth, a galaxy with little-understood properties generates massive amounts of energy and light.

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NASA's NuSTAR Untangles Mystery of How Stars Explode

News Release • February 19, 2014

One of the biggest mysteries in astronomy, how stars blow up in supernova explosions, is being unraveled with the help of NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array.

Dead Star and Distant Black Holes Dazzle in X-Rays

News Release • January 9, 2014

New images from NASA's NuSTAR highlight a spinning, dead star and black holes blanketed in dust.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

NuSTAR Mission Status Report

News Release • June 27, 2012

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

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.

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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