Category: NuSTAR

See any similarity in these news topics that have circulated in the last week? That might confuse readers not reminded why something looks familiar?

Last week NASA announced  and got fairly wide coverage of news that it has vetoed a small, orbiting X-ray telescope that would have, after years of preparatory work and then launch on an Orbital Sciences Pegasus dropped from the belly of a Lockheed 1011,  inferred magnetic fields and much more in the tumultuous environment that wraps and warps space around neutron stars, black holes, and other extremely dense objects.

Tomorrow, if things go well, it will launch a small, orbiting X-ray telescope that, after years of...