A large number of galaxies are hiding black holes that we can't detect, and NASA's NuSTAR will use X-ray vision to find them.

During a two-year primary mission phase, NuSTAR will map selected regions of the sky in order to:

- Take a census of collapsed stars and black holes of different sizes by surveying regions surrounding the center of own Milky Way Galaxy and performing deep observations of the extragalactic sky;

- Map recently-synthesized material in young supernova remnants to understand how stars explode and how elements are created; and

- Understand what powers relativistic jets of particles from the most extreme active galaxies hosting supermassive black holes.

Later this summer, the spacecraft will lift off on an Orbital Sciences Pegasus XL rocket, which will be released from an aircraft taking off from the Reagan Test Site on the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

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