May 22nd, 2014

The 2014 NASA astrophysics division senior review panel has ranked NuSTAR second among the nine operating missions that were considered for extended operations. NASA has responded to the independent panels recommendations by approving continued operations through 2016 including the implementation of a Guest Observer Program that will begin in 2015. Details about the program will be available this summer.

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

April 30th, 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

April 28th, 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.

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Two Students from Long Island Win Top Intel Awards

March 11th, 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.

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Professor Nabs Award for Space Research

February 26th, 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

February 19th, 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.

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Dead Star and Distant Black Holes Dazzle in X-Rays

January 9th, 2014

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

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Do Black Holes Come in Size Medium?

November 26th, 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

November 21st, 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

September 5th, 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

August 29th, 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

June 17th, 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

June 11th, 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

February 27th, 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

February 25th, 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

February 21st, 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

January 7th, 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

November 27th, 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

November 20th, 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

October 23rd, 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

September 25th, 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

September 20th, 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

June 28th, 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

June 27th, 2012

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

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Observatory Unfurls its Unique Mast

June 21st, 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

June 13th, 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

June 11th, 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

June 7th, 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

June 6th, 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

June 5th, 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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