NASA launches X-ray telescope
Source: Associated Press
NASA launches X-ray telescope
By Alicia Chang, Associated Press Updated 57m ago
LOS ANGELES – NASA has a new X-ray eye in the sky.
The space agency's latest X-ray telescope was boosted into orbit Wednesday to begin a two-year mission to search for black holes and other hard-to-see celestial objects.
The telescope was launched by a rocket released from a carrier aircraft that took off from a remote Pacific island.
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The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuStar for short, focuses high-energy X-rays to peer through gas and dust in search of supermassive black holes in the center of galaxies, remnants of exploded stars and other exotic celestial objects.
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