NASA’s NICER Delivers Best-ever Pulsar Measurements, 1st Surface Map Astrophysicists are redrawing the textbook image of pulsars (the dense, whirling remains of exploded stars) thanks to NICER, an X-ray telescope aboard the International Space Station. NICER data has provided the first precise and dependable measurements
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