JUNE SIMMS: About a week after the launch of NuSTAR, its ten-meter-long mast was deployed, separating the mirrors on the telescope from its detectors. That provides the distance required to change the X-ray light into sharp images.
NASA says a main goal of the project is to count the number of collapsed stars and black holes in the universe. The telescope will be able to find black holes hidden behind dust and gas. It also can tell how fast a black hole is spinning. This information will help scientists learn how black holes form. NASA’s Paul Hertz says scientists really are not sure what they will find.
PAUL HERTZ: “Like all of our NASA missions, we’re going to find unexpected things out there that will lead us to questions and answers that we aren’t even anticipating at this time.” (:08)
We have placed an image on our website that shows hundreds of black holes. NASA says it is the best image that telescopes being used today can provide. The space agency also has created a simulation that shows how much more NASA expects NuSTAR will see when it searches the sky.
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CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: The American space agency is making final preparations to set down a laboratory on Mars. NASA launched its Mars Space Laboratory spacecraft from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida last November. It is set to arrive on the red planet on August sixth.
NASA says its goal is to learn if the landing area has or ever had conditions that might support life. Part of the Mars Space Laboratory is a robotic rover named Curiosity. It is designed to carry out an investigation of Mars’ ability to support microbial life.
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