NASA's NICER Tracks a Magnetar's Hot Spots (SVS14115 Merging Magnetar HotSpots 1080 Best)

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Explore how NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) tracked brilliant hot spots on the surface of an erupting magnetar – from 13,000 light-years away. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterMusic: "Particles and Fields" from Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.

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NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio - KBR Wyle Services, LLC/Scott Wiessinger, University of Maryland College Park/Francis Reddy, KBR Wyle Services, LLC/Krystofer Kim, George Washington University/GSFC/George Younes

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