NICER X-ray Timing Instrument (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

NICER X-ray Timing Instrument

Caption

A view of the NICER X-ray Timing Instrument without its protective blanketing shows a collection of 56 close-packed sunshades -- the white and black cylinders in the foreground -- that protect the X-ray optics (not visible here), as well as some of the 56 X-ray detector enclosures, on the gold-colored plate, onto which X-rays from the sky are focused.

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Keith Gendreau

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