Tag: NICER

Stunning X-Rays View Of The Night Sky Delivered By NICER Is Like A Piece Of Art

MessageToEagle.com | June 2, 2019

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A map of the entire sky in X-rays has been recorded by NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER). NICER’s primary science goals

The stars of IGR J17062–6143, illustrated here, circle each other every 38 minutes, the fastest-known orbit for a binary system containing an accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar. As they revolve, a superdense pulsar pulls gas from a lightweight white dwarf. The two stars are so close they would fit between Earth and the Moon. Image credit: NASA

Astronomy

NICER Found X-ray Pulsar That Revolve Around Each Other Every 38 Minutes

MessageToEagle.com | May 11, 2018

MessageToEagle.com – Astronomers analyzing the first data from the Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) mission have discovered two stars that revolve around each other every 38 minutes. One of the