NASA recently shared an image of the entire sky in X-rays recorded by its Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER), and it is a stunning map of bright sweeping arcs. NICER, an International Space Station payload, is required to track cosmic sources whenever the Space Station orbits our planet every 93 minutes, said a NASA press release. However, when the sun sets and it’s nighttime at the Space Station, the NICER team maintains active detectors while the payload slides between targets, which could happen up to eight times each orbit. With the map, NASA could eventually discover ne...
Updated: 05/30/2019 05:02P
In the coming years, thousands of satellites, several next-generation space telescopes and even a few space habitats are expected to be launched into orbit.
Updated: 02/25/2019 07:38A