Medicine & TechnologyNew data from the NASA Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) space observatory show that some of the universe's brightest objects, the ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULX), might be virtually invisible if they are pointed somewhere else.
Scientists are starting to learn that these massive X-ray beams are a result of coronas escaping from the black hole speeding at 20 percent the speed of light.
With a new day in science comes a new study of the sun. No, we’re not talking about a new telescope or a new division under the international space agencies, but rather a reallocation of a science used in other parts of space. Turning their sights from far off black holes, with a closer subject in mind, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) is repositioning their NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array) towards our very own local star to produce the most sensitive measurements of high-energy solar x-rays to date.