What's so special about NASA's new star space telescope? New star is a small explorer mission that will be launching very soon. It is going to, for the first time, focus hard x-rays into images. And it turns out that the universe is actually emitting an awful lot of light at hard x-rays. It means more or less that we've got an X-ray camera now, and we're going to take the X-ray camera, and we're going to take a photo. And the result is it's going to be a much more sensitive view than we have ever had before of the hard x-ray universe. And we'll be able to do things like say that black hole corresponds to this galaxy. Since we know how far away this galaxy is, we know how far away the black hole is, we can start measuring the properties of the supermassive black hole. Be sure to tell your teacher to visit the NASA Explorer Schools Virtual Campus.