NASA is calling it the black hole hunter.
It is a newly launched telescope that could just change the way we see the universe.
The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or just NuStar, was carried by plane from a United States military air base in the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific ocean.
NuStar will become operational in about a week when a long mast about the length of a bus will unfold in space.
Once deployed, astronomers will be able to get a close look at what are known as high-energy fields in space like exploding stars and black holes.
Al Jazeera's Anand Naidoo reports.
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