NASA's NICER finds X-ray boosts in the Crab Pulsar's radio bursts

in hive-160342 •  4 years ago 

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A global science collaboration using data from NASA's Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) telescope on the International Space Station has discovered X-ray surges accompanying radio bursts from the pulsar in the Crab Nebula. The finding shows that these bursts, called giant radio pulses, release far more energy than previously suspected.
NASA's NICER finds X-ray boosts in the Crab Pulsar's radio bursts
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