NuSTAR will be the first focusing high energy X-ray mission, opening the hard X-ray sky for sensitive study for the first time. NuSTAR will search for black holes, map supernova explosions, and study the most extreme active galaxies.
In the February issue of Scientific American two astrophysicists offer a close-up look at a telescope they are developing for NASA. The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) is the space agency's first mission capable of focusing high-energy x-rays. Among other goals, NuSTAR is expected to capture the highest quality hard x-ray images to date of black holes, neutron stars and other extreme phenomena. The photo feature in the magazine showed just the optics; this slide show reveals NuSTAR's other components as they are assembled in preparation for the telescope's launch next year.
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