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NASA March 13 NuSTAR Media Briefing Postponed
03.12.12 - The Tuesday, March 13, media briefing to discuss the upcoming launch of the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) has been postponed.
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Lifting Space Astronomy out of the 'Fog'
03.12.12 - This mission would put a space telescope outside a vast dust cloud that interfers with infrared, optical and ultraviolet observations.
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NASA's RXTE Captures Thermonuclear Behavior
03.09.12 - A neutron star near the center of our galaxy erupted with hundreds of X-ray bursts, powered by thermonuclear explosions on the star's surface.
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NASA to Hold Media Briefing About NuSTAR Mission
03.08.12 - NASA will hold a media briefing at 9 a.m. PDT (12 p.m. EDT) on Tuesday, March 13, to discuss the upcoming launch of an innovative X-ray telescope called NuSTAR.
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Citizen Scientists Reveal a Bubbly Milky Way
03.07.12 - Volunteers are helping astronomers find star-blown bubbles throughout our Milky Way galaxy.
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Antlia Dwarf Galaxy Peppers the Sky with Stars
03.02.12 - The myriad faint stars that comprise the Antlia Dwarf galaxy are more than 4 million light-years from Earth.
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Dark Matter Core Defies Explanation
03.02.12 - This composite image shows the distribution of dark matter, galaxies, and hot gas in the core of the merging galaxy cluster Abell 520.
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Engineers Tuck NuSTAR in its Nose Cone
03.02.12 - NuSTAR is being encapsulated in its rocket nose cone, or fairing, which will protect it during launch, scheduled for no earlier than March 21.
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Young Stars Flicker Amidst Clouds of Gas and Dust
02.29.12 - Astronomers have spotted young stars in the Orion nebula changing right before their eyes, thanks to the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory and NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
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Ultra-fast Outflows Help Monster Black Holes Shape Their Galaxies
02.27.12 - A curious correlation between the mass of a galaxy's central black hole and the velocity of stars in a vast, roughly spherical structure known as its bulge has puzzled astronomers for years.