NASA’s newest x-ray telescope launched

Washington Post : The NuSTAR space telescope was launched successfully this morning by a rocket dropped from an airplane 39â000 feet above Kwajalein Atoll in the western Pacific Ocean. The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (the spacecraft’s full name) will study high-energy x rays from black holes, supernova explosions, and the Sun. The project is led by Fiona Harrison of Caltech, only the second woman ever to lead a NASA mission. Brian Vastag of the Washington Post conducts a Q&A with Harrison, in which he asks her about why she became interested in studying x rays from space and what makes NuSTAR special.