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NASA's New ISS Experiment Will Study Mysterious Pulsars


NASA's New ISS Experiment Will Study Mysterious Pulsars The first space-based experiment devoted to studying some of the most mysterious objects in the universe—neutron stars and pulsars—is about to launch to the International Space Station on Thursday, June 1, atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. NICER, the Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer, will be mounted externally on the ISS, and the X-ray spectrometer will tell us more about the gravitational, electromagnetic, and nuclear physics of neutron stars than we have ever known.   More



(Source: Popular Mechanics - May 30)

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