This enhanced color view of Jupiter’s south pole was created by citizen scientist Gabriel Fiset using data from the JunoCam instrument on NASA’s Juno spacecraft. Image Credit: NASA/Juno Image GalleryOkay, this qualifies as an exciting week for me. NuSTAR is pointing at Jupiter at the same time as Juno (which took the amazing image above) is… Continue reading Shooting Jupiter
Category: Things I do
Things I actually work on.
BBEdit and IDL
Okay, so I’ve been trying to wean myself off of IDL in favor of python. Sometimes after you tell yourself you’re not going to develop in a language again you find an awesome new tool…
NuSTAR and Nanoflares
NuSTAR’s solar observations are in the news again!
Yep, we made it into APOD. And on the evening news. Woot. This particular link goes straight to the APOD coverage, but if you Google “NuSTAR Sun” then you can find lots of great coverage.
A giant pulse from M82
Latest NuSTAR Nature paper on the “ultra” pulsar in M82 and the press release via the NuSTAR Caltech site.
Explosions and star guts in Cas A
Early NuSTAR observations of the star guts exploding out of Cas A.