Astronauts Set for Spacewalk To Seal NICER Telescope’s Light Leak
NASA is set to repair the NICER telescope on the ISS via a spacewalk to address a light leak affecting observations. Positioned near the station’s…
NICER News
NASA’s NICER Tests Matter’s Limits – Probes the Squeezability of Neutron Stars
Matter in the hearts of neutron stars – dense remnants of exploded massive stars – takes the most extreme form we can measure. Now, thanks…
Weird X-ray Surges Detected in Crab Pulsar’s Radio Bursts by NASA’s NICER
A global science collaboration using data from NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) telescope on the International Space Station has discovered X-ray surges accompanying…
Cosmic Lighthouses May Navigate Future Space Travelers
For centuries, lighthouses helped sailors navigate safely into harbor. Their lights swept across the water, cutting through fog and darkness, guiding mariners around dangerous obstacles…
Map of the Entire Sky in X-Rays Recorded by NASA’s NICER
In this image, numerous sweeping arcs seem to congregate at various bright regions. You may wonder: What is being shown? Air traffic routes? Information moving…
Scientists Chart Environment Surrounding a Stellar-Mass Black Hole
Scientists have charted the environment surrounding a stellar-mass black hole that is 10 times the mass of the Sun using NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition…
NICER Mission Discovers Ultracompact Orbit of an Accreting Millisecond Pulsar
Scientists analyzing the first data from the Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) mission have found two stars that revolve around each other every 38…
NASA NICER Mission Set to Study Mysterious Neutron Stars
A new NASA mission is headed for the International Space Station next month to observe one of the strangest observable objects in the universe. The…
NICER Mission Set to Reveal the Secrets of Neutron Stars
NASA’s new mission, Neutron-star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER), is set to reveal the physics that make neutron stars the densest objects in nature and to…