NuSTAR opens out-of-this-world view thanks to Livermore Lab technology

Wednesday, June 13, 2012 - 17:30 in Astronomy & Space

NuSTAR will allow researchers to observe a new class of objects in space, called extreme objects, which have never been seen. The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (or NuSTAR), is the first focusing, high energy X-ray NASA satellite that will open the hard X-ray sky for sensitive study for the first time. It is scheduled for launch June 13 from Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

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