NASA unveils a new image of the night sky from the International Space Station

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NASA has unveiled a new image that shows the night sky, as seen by NICER, an instrument on board the International Space Station.

According to the Daily Mail website, NICER has spent nearly two years tracking the cosmic sources it encounters when the International Space Station is orbiting the Earth, a journey of only 93 minutes.

This new image shows data from the first 22 months of operation of the tool, tracking x-ray and high-energy particle collision zones.

NASA's NICER tool is designed to target cosmic sources at night, as their detectors are ready to work, so they can collect data because they repeatedly pass on these bright sources.

According to the report of the space agency on the Daily Mail website: "The arcs and bright places in the picture are the result of the path followed by the NICER."

This version clearly shows that the NICER has noticed everything from nebulae, pulsars, stars, and black hole pinholes. "With minimal processing, the image reveals the remains of the supernova," says Keith Gendoro, the mission's chief investigator at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. , Which is about 90 light years old and is believed to be between 5000 and 8000 years old. "

"NICER night scans are likely to reveal a new X-ray image of the sky," he said.

According to NASA, the instrument is mainly based on studying the stars of the neutron, which is the dense remnant of the mitochondrial stars, and the NICER tool leads an experiment that works as a global positioning system to locate the galaxy primarily.