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• NICER Finds X-ray Boosts in the Crab Pulsar's Radio Bursts (08 Apr 2021)
  A global science collaboration using data from NASA's Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) telescope has discovered X-ray surges accompanying radio bursts from the pulsar in the Crab Nebula. The finding shows that these giant radio pulses release far more energy than previously suspected.
• NICER follow-up of SRGA J181414.6-225604 (08 Apr 2021)
  NICER followup observations of a possible new X-ray transient discovered by the SRG observatory detected a source showing a peak in soft X-rays and a hard non-thermal tail at higher energies. No evidence for temporal variability was seen.
• NICER Virtual Data Analysis and Science Meeting: Registration Open (31 Mar 2021)
  Registration is now open for a virtual data analysis workshop, which will be held the week of May 10, 2021, on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, 9 am to 1 pm. You can register using the workshop registration form.
• NICER and Swift observations of the new outburst of MAXI J1820+070 (30 Mar 2021)
  NICER and Swift observations of the black hole X-ray transient MAXI J1820+070 near the start of its outburst found an X-ray luminosity of only 1e33 ergs/s. This is one of the lowest luminosities at which the start of a black hole-X-ray transient outburst has been caught in X-rays.
• NICER X-ray activity shows GX 339-4 undergoing a rapid state transition (28 Mar 2021)
  NICER observations of the black hole binary system GX 339-4 during its recent outburst shows the presence of an evolving QPO in the power spectrum indicating that the source entered a hard-to-soft state transition.

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