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NASA to Host News Teleconference About NuSTAR Launch
06.06.12 - 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 (NuSTAR) observatory, scheduled for no earlier than 8:30 a.m. PDT (11:30 a.m. EDT) June 13.
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NuSTAR Arrives at Island Launch Site
06.07.12 - NASA's NuSTAR mission is now at Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, awaiting its June 13 airborne launch.
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NuSTAR to Open X-ray Eyes on Universe
06.05.12 - The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array is to focus its instruments on the high-energy universe.
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Venus' Transit and the Search for Other Worlds
06.05.2012 - It's the final opportunity of the century to witness the rare astronomical reunion of the sun, Venus and Earth.
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Giant Black Hole Kicked Out of Home Galaxy
06.04.12 - Astronomers have found strong evidence that a massive black hole is being ejected from its host galaxy at a speed of several million miles per hour.
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NuSTAR Strapped to its Plane
06.04.12 - NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, is strapped to the bottom of the plane that will carry it to launch on June 13.
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Hubble Sees a Celestial Swan and Butterfly
06.04.12 - Located just beyond the tail of Cygnus (The Swan), this butterfly-shaped cloud of glowing gas and dust is the wreckage of a star similar to the Sun.
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X-ray 'Echoes' Map a Supermassive Black Hole's Environs
05.31.12 - An international team of astronomers using data from the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton satellite has identified a long-sought X-ray 'echo' that promises a new way to probe supersized black holes in distant galaxies.
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Milky Way Destined for Head-On Collision
05.31.12 - The Milky Way is destined to get a major makeover during an encounter with the Andromeda galaxy, predicted to happen 4 billion years from now.
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NASA Preparing to Launch its Newest X-Ray Eyes
05.30.12 - NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, is being prepared for the final journey to its launch pad on Kwajalein Atoll in the central Pacific Ocean.