In late August, an instrument on the International Space Station, called NICER, spotted its brightest burst of X-ray radiation yet.
NASA Instrument Spots Its Brightest X-Ray Burst Ever
A Type I X-ray burst from a star generated a burst of X-rays more extreme than astronomers had ever seen before.
Nov 15, 2019 8:00 PMNov 19, 2019 3:38 PM
An illustration depicting a Type I X-ray burst. A similar supernova generated the extreme X-ray burst that NASA’s NICER instrument recently recorded. (Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith (USRA))
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