The “NuSTAR” is a space based X-ray telescope designed by NASA to study ___?

The “NuSTAR” is a space based X-ray telescope designed by NASA to study ___?
[A]Comets
[B]Black Holes
[C]Asteroids
[D]Dwarf Planets

Black Holes
The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array is an Explorer mission that will allow astronomers to study the universe in high energy X-rays. Launched in June of 2012, NuSTAR is the first focusing hard X-ray telescope to orbit Earth. NuSTAR’s primary science objectives include: Conducting a census for black holes on all scales using wide-field surveys of extragalactic fields and the Galactic center. Mapping radioactive material in young supernova remnants; studying the birth of the elements and to understand how stars explode.


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