Wavelengths of light from three space observatories are overlapped to provide this unique view of the Sun. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/JAXA Some of the hottest spots in…
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Artist’s concept of NuSTAR on orbit. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech This small but powerful space telescope has spent a decade of observing some of the hottest, densest,…
Artist’s concept of NuSTAR on orbit. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech A design quirk in the X-ray observatory has made it possible for astronomers to use previously unwanted…
Jupiter’s southern hemisphere is shown in this image from NASA’s Juno mission. New observations by NASA’s NuSTAR reveal that auroras near both the planet’s poles…
This illustration shows SS 433, a black hole or neutron star, as it pulls material away from its companion star. The stellar material forms a…
On the left, data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory shows a portion of the remains of an exploded star known as supernova 1987A. On the…
A neutron star begins its life as a star between about 7 and 20 times the mass of the sun. When this type of star…
Artistic representation of a nova eruption: During a nova eruption a white dwarf sucks matter from its companion star and stores this mass on its…
V906 Carinae’s 2018 nova eruption illustration. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith (USRA) Unprecedented observations of a nova outburst in 2018 by a trio…