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

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.

- Kind: Short
- Year: 2022
- Runtime: 2 min
- By: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio - KBR Wyle Services, LLC/Scott Wiessinger, University of Maryland College Park/Francis Reddy, KBR Wyle Services,…
- Genres: Space
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NASA%27s_NICER_Tracks_a_Magnetar%27s_Hot_Spots_(SVS14115_Merging_Magnetar_HotSpots_1080_Best).webm)
- Licence or status: Public domain (as the archive states it)
- Credit: 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
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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