A NICER Thermonuclear Burst from the Millisecond X-Ray Pulsar SAX J1808.4–3658
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French to English Translation
The event is unique. With its NICER orbital telescope, NASA has detected a powerful thermonuclear explosion, which seems to come from a celestial object with strange characteristics.
"This burst was exceptional". NASA astrophysicist Peter Bult is enthusiastic after watching a massive thermonuclear explosion in space. At the origin of this event? A powerful pulsar, that is the stellar remains of a supernova star. The implosion of the celestial body was too small to form a black hole, but could be discovered by the space agency thanks to the intense projection of an X-ray beam, captured by the NASA Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer telescope (NICER ) of the International Space Station (ISS). The phenomenon, described in a study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters at the end of October, would be the most powerful and the most brilliant ever detected.
NASA's NICER Catches Record-setting X-ray Burst
© Fournis par KIOSK La NASA
French to English Translation
The event is unique. With its NICER orbital telescope, NASA has detected a powerful thermonuclear explosion, which seems to come from a celestial object with strange characteristics.
"This burst was exceptional". NASA astrophysicist Peter Bult is enthusiastic after watching a massive thermonuclear explosion in space. At the origin of this event? A powerful pulsar, that is the stellar remains of a supernova star. The implosion of the celestial body was too small to form a black hole, but could be discovered by the space agency thanks to the intense projection of an X-ray beam, captured by the NASA Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer telescope (NICER ) of the International Space Station (ISS). The phenomenon, described in a study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters at the end of October, would be the most powerful and the most brilliant ever detected.
NASA's NICER Catches Record-setting X-ray Burst