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    The Neutron Star Interior Composition ExploreR (NICER) is a NASA telescope on the International Space Station, designed and dedicated to the study of the...
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    station". Spaceflight Now. Retrieved 11 November 2017. "The Neutron star Interior Composition ExploreR Mission". NASA. Retrieved 26 February 2016. This article...
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    SAX J1808.4−3658 (category Objects with variable star designations)
    outburst. On 21 August 2019 (UTC; 20 August in the US), Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) spotted the brightest X-ray burst so far observed...
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    cargo composed of three external station experiments: Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER), MUSES and Roll Out Solar Array (ROSA). The following...
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    telescopes Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER, launched in June 2017 and attached to ISS) "NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer Leaves Scientific...
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    astronomy telescopes and experiments include SOLAR, the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer, the Calorimetric Electron Telescope, the Monitor of All-sky...
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    Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (category Explorers Program)
    April 2013, it was announced that TESS, along with the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER), had been selected by NASA for launch. On 18 July...
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    the original on 2016-05-01. Retrieved 2019-02-08. "The Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer". Archived from the original on 2017-05-13. Retrieved...
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    astronomy telescopes and experiments include SOLAR, the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer, the Calorimetric Electron Telescope, the Monitor of All-sky...
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    of cargo to the International Space Station, including Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER). The first stage of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle...
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    by the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER), the Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image (MAXI), the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE),...
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  • supernova remnant. Bogdanov, Slavko; et al. (28 May 2019). "Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer X-Ray Timing of the Radio and γ-Ray Quiet Pulsars PSR...
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    Infrared Surveyor (LUVOIR) Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) X-Ray...
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    replaced a rate gyro assembly, installed patches on the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) X-ray telescope, replaced a reflector on the International...
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    A neutron star is the gravitationally collapsed core of a massive supergiant star. It results from the supernova explosion of a massive star—combined with...
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    PSR J0740+6620 (category Neutron stars)
    B1913+16 PSR B1957+20 (1.66-2.4 M☉) Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) List of the most massive neutron stars "PSR J0740+6620". SIMBAD. Centre...
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    star collapses. Depending upon the chemical composition and pre-collapse temperature in the center, this will lead either to collapse into a neutron star...
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    that the interior of neutrons is very much like that of protons, save for the difference in quark composition with a down quark in the neutron replacing...
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    waves. Yunes extracted astrophysical information from the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER), a NASA payload that was installed in the International...
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    between the different methods of measurements. 2017 – Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) arrives on the International Space Station. 2017-18...
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  • tested with a high accuracy. This system contains a neutron star in a 1.6-day orbit with a white dwarf star, and the pair in a 327-day orbit with another white...
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    Stellar evolution Gravitational collapse Neutron star (Template:neutron star) Compact star Quark star Exotic star Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff limit White...
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    original on 16 May 2021. Retrieved 16 May 2021. "The Neutron star Interior Composition ExploreR Mission". NASA. Archived from the original on 13 May 2017...
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    Sun (redirect from Local Star)
    System portal Weather portal Physics portal Advanced Composition Explorer – NASA satellite of the Explorer program, at SE-L1 from 1997 Analemma – Diagrammatic...
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    large envelope of material of composition similar to main-sequence stars (except in the case of carbon stars). When a star exhausts the supply of hydrogen...
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    Red dwarf (redirect from Red dwarf star)
    red dwarf is the smallest kind of star on the main sequence. Red dwarfs are by far the most common type of fusing star in the Milky Way, at least in the...
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    White dwarf (redirect from White Dwarf Star)
    a neutron star or black hole. This includes over 97% of the stars in the Milky Way.: §1  After the hydrogen-fusing period of a main-sequence star of...
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    ALPHA-P spectrometer Designed to estimate the chemical composition of rocks. NEUTRON NEUTRON-P spectrometer Designed to measure the humidity and density...
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  • Ultraviolet Explorer detected white dwarfs in some barium star systems. Barium stars are believed to be the result of mass transfer in a binary star system...
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  • femtometer (1×10−15 m), which is about 0.6 times the size of a proton or neutron. All mesons are unstable, with the longest-lived lasting for only a few...
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