It’s been an exciting month full of supermoons, solar eclipses, and black holes devouring stars.
This week, there will be another exciting development, but one that is
much easier to miss. However, it might lead to answering the greatest
question ever encountered by humanity: how did we get here?
NASA will be holding a press conference Wednesday regarding the
upcoming launch of their NuSTAR probe. NuSTAR, which stands for “Nuclear
Spectroscopic Telescope Array,” is the first orbiting telescope of its
kind, built and managed by CalTech and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.
It’s an X-ray telescope, which means that its mirrors are designed to
reflect and focus X-rays, allowing scientists to see high-energy waves
that our eyes can’t normally detect. This telescope does not emit X-rays like the machine in your doctor's office – it receives X-rays from space and reflects them using mirrors into something we can see...
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