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NuSTAR

Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array

Active Mission

Studying the universe in high-energy X-rays to better understand the dynamics of black holes, exploding stars, and the most extreme active galaxies, this telescope was first to measure precisely the spin of a black hole, and contributed to the first-ever picture of a black hole.

Type

Space Telescope

Launch

June 13, 2012

Target

Universe

Objective

Map Selected Regions of the Sky

NuSTAR Mission Poster

Celebrate 13 years in orbit with NuSTAR

Learn More about NuSTAR Mission Poster
The poster pictures the NuSTAR space telescope in the foreground. In the background is a black hole, with an accretion disk around it and a jet emerging above it. Exploding neutron stars can be seen beyond the black hole�s accretion disk.