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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    A neutron star is the collapsed core of a massive supergiant star. It results from the supernova explosion of a massive star—combined with gravitational...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Sun (redirect from Local Star)
    System portal Weather portal Physics portal Advanced Composition Explorer – NASA satellite of the Explorer program Analemma – Diagrammatic representation of...
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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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    S2CID 13606600. For the first 105–6 years of its life, the cooling of a neutron star is governed by the balance between heat capacity and the loss of heat...
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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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    to its closed nuclear subshell with 142 neutrons. Thorium has a characteristic terrestrial isotopic composition, with atomic weight 232.0377±0.0004. It...
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    Betelgeuse (redirect from Betelgeuse (star))
    neutron star or black hole. Betelgeuse does not seem to have a core massive enough for a black hole, so the remnant will probably be a neutron star of...
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    spectrometer, and a gamma-ray and neutron detector. These instruments examined Ceres's shape and elemental composition. On 13 January 2015, as Dawn approached...
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    radiation from the black hole at the galactic center, and from nearby neutron stars, becomes less intense as distance increases. Thus the early universe...
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