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Inner zone of the accretion disk of a stellar-mass black hole.

NASA-Led Study Explains Decades of Black Hole Observations

06.14.2013
A new study by astronomers at NASA, Johns Hopkins University and the Rochester Institute of Technology suspicions about how stellar-mass black holes produce their highest-energy light.
JWST

NASA'S Webb Telescope Flight Backplane Section Completed

06.14.2013
The center section of the backplane structure that will fly on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been completed, marking an important milestone in the telescope's hardware development.
Composite image from NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) and the European Southern Observatory

Black Hole Naps Amidst Stellar Chaos

06.11.2013
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory caught signs of what appeared to be a black hole snacking on gas at the middle of the nearby Sculptor galaxy. Now,NuSTAR results imply it went dormant.
The cosmic microwave background

NASA Chandra, Spitzer Study Suggests Black Holes Abundant Among The Earliest Stars

06.05.2013
By comparing infrared and X-ray background signals, team of astronomers has discovered evidence of a significant number of black holes that accompanied the first stars in the universe.
Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 imaged the double-star system T Pyxidis, or T Pyx, over a four-month period.

Hubble Maps 3-D Structure of Ejected Material Around Erupting Star

06.04.2013
A flash of light from a stellar outburst has provided a rare look at the 3-D structure of material ejected by an erupting nova.
The Swift mosaic of the Small Magellanic Cloud

NASA's Swift Produces Best Ultraviolet Maps of the Nearest Galaxies

06.03.2013
Astronomers at NASA and Pennsylvania State have used the Swift satellite to create the most detailed ultraviolet light surveys ever of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds.
An artist's rendering of an outburst on an ultra-magnetic neutron star, also called a magnetar.

NASA's Swift Reveals New Phenomenon in a Neutron Star

05.29.2013
Astronomers using NASA's Swift X-ray Telescope have observed a spinning neutron star suddenly slowing down, yielding clues they can use to understand these extremely dense objects.
GRB 130427A

NASA's Fermi, Swift See 'Shockingly Bright' Burst

05.03.2013
A record-setting blast of gamma rays from a dying star in a distant galaxy has wowed astronomers around the world.
Fermi Collision Avoidance

The Day NASA's Fermi Dodged a 1.5-ton Bullet

04.30.2013
On March 29, 2012, the science team for NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope learned that a defunct Cold-War spy satellite would pass too close for comfort on April 4.
Horesehead Nebula in infrared

NASA's Hubble Sees a Horsehead of a Different Color

04.19.2013
Astronomers have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to photograph the iconic Horsehead Nebula in a new, infrared light to mark the 23rd anniversary of the famous observatory's launch.
This false-color image shows the event as captured by the X-ray Telescope aboard NASA's Swift satellite

Dying Supergiant Stars Implicated in Hours-long Gamma-Ray Bursts

04.16.2013
Three unusually long-lasting stellar explosions discovered by NASA’s Swift satellite represent a previously unrecognized class of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs).
This composite of images from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory shows the remnant of Kepler's supernova in low, intermediate and high-energy X-rays.

Suzaku 'Post-mortem' Yields Insight into Kepler's Supernova

04.08.2013
An exploding star observed in 1604 by the German astronomer Johannes Kepler held a greater fraction of heavy elements than the sun, according to an analysis of X-ray observations from Suzaku.
artist's conception of NICER on the ISS

New Mission to Uncover Physics of Neutron Stars and Demonstrate Game-Changing Navigation Technology

04.05.2013
NICER will gather scientific data revealing the physics of the densest matter allowed in nature, and could revolutionize our ability to travel to the far reaches of the solar system and beyond.
NASA Taps the Power of Zombie Stars in Two-in-One Instrument
NICER principal investigator Keith Gendreau

NASA Selects Explorer Investigations for Formulation

04.05.2013
NASA's Astrophysics Explorer Program has selected two missions for launch in 2017: a planet-hunting satellite and an International Space Station instrument to observe X-rays from stars.
Hubble Space Telescope view of supernova SN UDS10Wil

Hubble Breaks Record in Search for Farthest Supernova

04.04.2013
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found the farthest supernova so far of the type used to measure cosmic distances.
From now through October, comet ISON tracks through the constellations Gemini, Cancer and Leo as it falls toward the sun.

NASA's Swift Sizes Up Comet ISON

03.29.2013
Astronomers from the University of Maryland at College Park (UMCP) and Lowell Observatory have used NASA's Swift satellite to check out comet C/2012 S1 (ISON).
Technicians complete the primary mirror backplane support structure wing assemblies.

NASA's Webb Telescope Gets Its Wings

03.15.2013
A massive backplane that will hold the primary mirror of JWST nearly motionless while it peers into space is another step closer to completion.
his composite of supernova remnant G306.3–0.9 merges Chandra X-ray observations (blue), infrared data acquired by the Spitzer Space Telescope (red and cyan) and radio observations (purple) from the Australia Telescope Compact Array.

NASA's Swift, Chandra Explore a Youthful 'Star Wreck'

03.15.2013
While performing an extensive X-ray survey of our galaxy's central regions, NASA's Swift satellite has uncovered the previously unknown remains of a shattered star.
Abstract: This image compresses the Vela movie sequence into a single snapshot

Fermi's Motion Produces a Study in Spirograph

02.27.2013
A Fermi scientist has transformed LAT data of a famous pulsar into a mesmerizing movie that visually encapsulates the spacecraft's complex motion.
Two Models of Black Hole Spin

NASA's NuSTAR Helps Solve Riddle of Black Hole Spin

02.27.2013
Two X-ray space observatories, NASA's NuSTAR and the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton, have teamed up to measure the spin rate of a black hole with a mass 2 million times that of our sun.
This multiwavelength composite shows the supernova remnant IC 443, also known as the Jellyfish Nebula.

NASA's Fermi Proves Supernova Remnants Produce Cosmic Rays

02.14.2013
A new study using observations from Fermi reveals the first clear-cut evidence the expanding debris of exploded stars produces some of the fastest-moving matter in the universe.
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The Euclid spacecraft

NASA Goddard Team to Participate in Dark Energy Mission

02.12.2013
The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected three NASA-nominated science teams to participate in their planned Euclid mission, including one led by Goddard Space Flight Center.
[Companion release on the JPL team]
Photo of the scientists.

NASA scientists build first-ever wide-field X-ray imager

02.07.2013
Three NASA scientists teamed up to develop and demonstrate NASA's first wide-field-of-view soft X-ray camera for studying "charge exchange."
Balloon, ready to launch.

NASA Super-Tiger Balloon Shatters Flight Record

01.24.2013
Flying high over Antarctica, a NASA long duration balloon has broken the record for longest flight by a balloon of its size.
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Artist's comception of JWST

Webb Telescope Team Completes Optical Milestone

01.16.2013
Engineers working on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope met another milestone recently with they completed performance testing on the observatory's aft-optics subsystem.
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