NuSTAR Bringing the High Energy Universe into Focus

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Fast Radio Burst Magnetar

Artwork • September 17, 2024

In an ejection that would have caused its rotation to slow, a magnetar is depicted losing material into space in this artist’s concept. The magnetar’s strong, twisted magnetic field lines (shown in green) can influence the flow of electrically charged material from the object, which is a type of neutron star.

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X-ray Superflares in Young Binary System DQ Tau

Artwork • September 13, 2024

This illustration depicts X-ray superflares in the DQ Tau binary system. In the picture, brilliant coronal loops of hot plasma emerge from each young star, following their strong magnetic fields. These loops are thought to extend up to 10 times the radii of their host stars, vastly larger than anything seen around our own Sun.

M101 Mosaic

Observation • January 24, 2024

Only four days after the explosion, NuSTAR observed the nearby core-collapse supernova SN2023ixf in M101, also known as the Pinwheel Galaxy. The NuSTAR X-ray data (green) shows the X-ray detection over of the supernova. The X-ray data are overlaid on an archival optical image (NOIRLab/KPNO, yellows and reds) that has been combined with a far-UV image from GALEX (blue).

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Gamma-Ray Burst Jet Illustration

Artwork • June 8, 2023

A jet of particles pierces a star as it collapses into a black hole during a typical gamma-ray burst, as depicted in this artist’s concept. The jet created by gamma-ray burst 221009A had some unique features

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Ultra-luminous X-ray Source with Magnetic Fields

Artwork • April 6, 2023

In this illustration of an ultra-luminous X-ray source, two rivers of hot gas are pulled onto the surface of a neutron star. Strong magnetic fields, shown in green, may change the interaction of matter and light near neutron stars’ surface, increasing how bright they can become.

Ultra-luminous X-ray Source

Artwork • April 6, 2023

In this illustration of an ultra-luminous X-ray source, two rivers of hot gas are pulled onto the surface of a neutron star. Strong magnetic fields, may change the interaction of matter and light near neutron stars’ surface, increasing how bright they can become.

A Black Hole Destroys a Star

Artwork • December 20, 2022

A disk of hot gas swirls around a black hole in this illustration. The stream of gas stretching to the right is what remains of a star that was pulled apart by the black hole. A cloud of hot plasma (gas atoms with their electrons stripped away) above the black hole is known as a corona.

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NuSTAR Celebrates 10 Years of Operations

Artwork • June 9, 2022

After a decade of operation, NuSTAR continues to open new horizons, discover fascinating objects, and expand our knowledge of the Universe.

NuSTAR conference, June 2022

Artwork • June 7, 2022

Ten Years of High-Energy Universe in Focus - NuSTAR 2022 - Cagliari, Italy - June 20-22, 2022

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Hard X-ray Observations of the Pulsar Wind Nebula G11.2-0.3

Observation • August 21, 2020

Researchers use NuSTAR’s ability to focus X-rays to study high-energy emission from the pulsar wind nebula G11.2-0.3 and the young pulsar PSR J1811-1925 powering it.

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Particle Acceleration in the 30 Doradus C Superbubble

Observation • June 24, 2020

Using NuSTAR, researchers find that the 30 Dor C superbubble is an efficient particle accelerator, with the hard X-ray emission arising from electrons with up to 100 TeV energies.

Highly Magnetic Neutron Star

Artwork • June 17, 2020

This illustration shows magnetic field lines protruding from a highly magnetic neutron star, or a dense nugget left over after a star goes supernova and explodes. Known as magnetars, these objects generate bright bursts of light that might be powered by their strong magnetic fields.

X-ray Emitting Binaries

Artwork • May 22, 2020

Artists concept of a neutron star (the bright white star) surrounded by an accretion disk of material that it has stripped of its low-mass companion star (top left). This material shines in X-rays as it falls onto the neutron star during "outbursts" of extremely bright X-ray activity.

NASA Telescope Spots Mystery in Fireworks Galaxy

Observation • September 4, 2019

This visible-light image of the Fireworks galaxy (NGC 6946) comes from the Digital Sky Survey, and is overlaid with data from NASA's NuSTAR observatory.

A Hard X-ray Look at M51

Observation • February 20, 2019

Bright green sources of high-energy X-ray light captured by NASA's NuSTAR mission are overlaid on an optical-light image of the Whirlpool galaxy (the spiral in the center of the image) and its companion galaxy, M51b (the bright greenish-white spot above the Whirlpool), taken by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.

Eta Carinae

Observation • July 3, 2018

The NuSTAR detection shows that shock waves in the wind collision zone accelerate charged particles like electrons and protons to near the speed of light. Some of these may reach Earth, where they will be detected as cosmic ray particles. X-rays scattered by debris ejected in Eta Carinae's famous 1840 eruption may produce the broader red emission.

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Black Hole With Jet

Artwork • October 30, 2017

This artist's concept shows a black hole with an accretion disk -- a flat structure of material orbiting the black hole - and a jet of hot gas, called plasma.

Growing Supermassive Black Holes

Artwork • May 9, 2017

This illustration compares growing supermassive black holes in two different kinds of galaxies.

Pulsar Candidate in Andromeda

Collage • March 23, 2017

NuSTAR, has identified a candidate pulsar in Andromeda -- the nearest large galaxy to the Milky Way. This likely pulsar is brighter at high energies than the Andromeda galaxy's entire black hole population.

The Rapid Burster

Artwork • January 31, 2017

These four images show an artist's impression of gas accreting onto the neutron star in the binary system MXB 1730-335, also known as the "Rapid Burster."

Supernova SN 2014C (X-ray)

Observation • January 24, 2017

This image from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory shows spiral galaxy NGC 7331, center, in a three-color X-ray image.

Supernova SN 2014C

Collage • January 24, 2017

This visible-light image from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey shows spiral galaxy NGC 7331, center, where astronomers observed the unusual supernova SN 2014C .

Supernova SN 2014C (X-ray) (Annotated)

Observation • January 24, 2017

This image from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory shows spiral galaxy NGC 7331, center, in a three-color X-ray image.

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Galaxy NGC 1448 with Active Galactic Nucleus

Observation • January 7, 2017

NGC 1448, a galaxy with an active galactic nucleus, is seen in this image combining data from the Carnegie-Irvine Galaxy Survey in the optical range and NuSTAR in the X-ray range.

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Galaxy IC 3639 with Obscured Active Galactic Nucleus

Observation • January 7, 2017

IC 3639, a galaxy with an active galactic nucleus, is seen in this image combining data from the Hubble Space Telescope and the European Southern Observatory.

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