Peter Boorman
Postdoc, Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences
- Czech Republic
About Peter Boorman
I'm a postdoc at the Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, studying obscured accretion of supermassive black holes located at the centers of galaxies outside of the Milky Way, known as Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN).
Intro Content
Celebrating the Birth of a NuSTAR
On 2012 June 13th, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope ARray (NuSTAR) -- a NASA Small Explorer mission -- was launched into a near-Earth orbit, providing the first satellite X-ray observatory capable of focussing high-energy X-rays.
