• Ultra-luminous X-ray pulsar NGC 300 ULX1 experienced unprecedented spin evolution, study finds (31 May 2019)
  NASA's NICER image shows 22 months of X-ray data recorded by the Space Station payload during its nighttime moves between targets.
• NASA's NICER Shows Entire Sky in X-rays in Stunning Arc Image (31 May 2019)
  NASA's NICER image shows 22 months of X-ray data recorded by the Space Station payload during its nighttime moves between targets.
• NASA Navigation Tech Highlights X-ray Navigation Using Pulsars (30 May 2019)
  X-ray navigation is a technology that NASA has already demonstrated on the International Space Station. X-ray navigation uses the ultra-regular oscillations of distant pulsars, a type of neutron star, for timing and location data.
• NICER sees the contraction of the corona in a black hole X-ray transient (14 Jan 2019)
  NICER made the cover of Nature with an analysis by Kara et al. of the temporal behavior of the X-ray spectrum of the black hole transient system MAXI J1820+070. Their analysis of the time-resolved NICER spectra of this system showed that the inner edge of the accretion disk is near the accreting black hole and that variations in the X-ray spectral lags indicated that the corona shrank over a time interval of a few weeks.
• NICERDAS Version 5 released (24 Oct 2018)
  The NICER data reduction software Version 5 was released on Oct 23 2018 with the release of HEASoft 6.25 . NICERDAS 5.0 includes updates to most tasks and includes new task, nicertimeconv, to do basic time conversions.

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