NASA’s NICER Continues Science Operations Post Repair NASA crew aboard the International Space Station installed patches to the agency’s NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer) mission ...

One of those detections was EP240408a, an unusual blast that lit up discussions between astronomers. Zhang and his colleagues ...

Wolf 359’s extreme radiation and frequent X-ray flares make life-sustaining atmospheres on nearby planets highly unlikely, ...

The highly energetic explosion was initially attributed to a burst of gamma rays emitted either by the collision of two neutron stars or from ... actually saw with its X-ray eye was something ...

NASA astronauts Nick Hague ... working to repair an X-ray telescope fitted to the exterior of the station called NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer). The astronauts are Nick Hague ...

The Trailblazer: A spinning neutron star is tied to a mysterious tail – or so it seems. Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory found that this pulsar, known as PSR J0357+3205 (or PSR ...

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The event is designated EP240408a, as it was first detected by the Einstein Probe, an X-ray space telescope, on 8 April 2024.

However, EP240408A refused to conform to what is expected of either of these powerful cosmic events, opening up the possibility that what the Einstein Probe actually saw with its X-ray ... NASA's ...

The NASA astronauts used the opportunity to carry out repairs to things such as a space station gyroscope, the NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer) X-ray telescope and to prepare a ...