Astronomers studying a rare neutron star system have uncovered a surprising source of powerful X-rays. Using NASA s IXPE telescope and data from other observatories, an international team found that ...

An international team of astronomers has uncovered new evidence to explain how pulsing remnants of exploded stars interact ...

NASA's IXPE just produced the first-ever X-ray polarization data of the Vela pulsar wind nebula.

This is not the first pulsar wind nebula IXPE has observed, though it is currently the record-holder for the object with the longest dedicated observation (17 days).

Pink and purple colors correspond to data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, which has observed Vela several times previously. The golden stars were captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.

A NASA X-ray instrument has provided a new view of one of astronomy's most beautiful objects, the Crab Nebula.

NASA's newest X-ray telescope in low-Earth orbit, IXPE, helped create this latest image as the twin probes set their sensors on a pulsar emission 16,000 lightyears away from our Solar System.

NASA's Earth-orbiting IXPE satellite, which launched on Dec. 9, 2021, has helped to unravel the pulsar's chaotic surroundings, which were previously not well understood.

With the help of NASA ‘s newest X-ray telescope, the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), researchers at Stanford University have given us a whole new view of pulsar PSR B1509-58 and its ...

NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) has solved a long-standing cosmic mystery about how X-rays are generated in the powerful jets of black holes like blazar BL Lacertae. By observing ...