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Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER)

NASA / GSFC · 2017-12-08 · photograph (digital archive)

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The NICER payload, blanketed and waiting for launch in the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The instrument is in its stowed configuration for launch. The Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) is a NASA Explorer Mission of Opportunity dedicated to studying the extraordinary environments — strong gravity, ultra-dense matter, and the most powerful magnetic fields in the universe — embodied by neutron stars.

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Credit lineNeutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER). NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000050.

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