Artist's Concept of the NICER Instrument on Board the International Space Station (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Artist's Concept of the NICER Instrument on Board the International Space Station

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This is an artist's concept of the NICER instrument on board the International Space Station. NICER is the cube in the foreground on the left. The circular objects protruding from the cube are telescopes that focus X-rays from the pulsar on to the detector.

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