NuSTAR's Extreme Universe

NuSTAR is NASA's newest eye on the X-ray sky, focusing on X-rays at higher energies than the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Since launch in June 2012, NuSTAR has been uncovering black holes hidden deep within gaseous galaxies, including studies of the black hole at the center of our own Milky Way. It has also mapped out elements from supernovae, revealing details of the processes that create the "starstuff" from which we are made. In this talk, Prof. Cominsky will explain the technological advances that made the NuSTAR mission possible, and will present several of its latest scientific discoveries.

Speaker: Lynn Cominsky, Sonoma State University