NuSTAR's Improved View

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nustar_nustar130227d February 27th, 2013

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

This image taken by the ultraviolet-light monitoring camera on the European Space Agency's (ESA's) XMM-Newton telescope shows the beautiful spiral arms of the galaxy NGC1365. Copious high-energy X-ray emission is emitted by the host galaxy, and by many background sources. The large regions observed by previous satellites contain so much of this background emission that the radiation from the central black hole is mixed and diluted into it. NuSTAR, NASA's newest X-ray observatory, is able to isolate the emission from the black hole, allowing a far more precise analysis of its properties.

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Curator: NuSTAR: Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, Pasadena, CA

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Object Name
NGC 1365
Subject - Local Universe
Galaxy > Type > Spiral
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C.5.1.1  
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NGC 1365
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NASA/JPL-Caltech
Release Date
2013-02-27
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NuSTAR: Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array
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http://www.nustar.caltech.edu
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Pasadena
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CA
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2014-01-27 15:25:33 -0800
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