NuSTAR Celebrates 13 Years in Space!
June 13th, 2025
Stained-glass-style promotional artwork of the NuSTAR observatory, showing the optics and focal plane benches, the 10-meter-long mast connecting them, and the solar panels that power the spacecraft. Image credit: NASA/A. Simonnet

On June 13, 2012, NuSTAR was launched into orbit on a Pegasus rocket. Since then, it has spent thirteen years pushing the boundaries of discovery in high-energy X-ray wavelengths, observing a wide variety of astronomical sources from black holes to supernovae to our own Sun. A new series of artworks illustrate the mission and a selection of key science areas that NuSTAR has helped to investigate over this time. You can see the full set of artwork and learn more about the science here, as well as download posters and coloring pages!