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 ...

Astronomers have just solved a long-standing mystery about a rare, rapidly spinning neutron star known as PSR J1023+0038.

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

NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) has produced the first-ever X-ray polarization data of the Vela pulsar wind nebula, which lies about 1,000 light-years from Earth in the ...

NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer has shared its very first images of Cassiopeia A, ... IXPE is designed to reveal new insights about some of the most extreme objects in the universe, ...

NASA revealed the first imaging data from its Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), an explorer launched in December to study supernovas, black holes, and more. The image is the first for a ...

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).

NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer has shared its very first images of Cassiopeia A, a famous supernova remnant from a star that exploded. Glowing purple gas clouds can be seen around the ...

SpaceX has been awarded a new contract by NASA to launch the agency’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer, or IXPE. This research spacecraft will study polarized light from sources including ...

The IXPE will could give us more insight into how black holes work. mariella moon. ... NASA. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has blasted off with NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE ...

A NASA X-ray instrument has provided a new view of one of astronomy’s most beautiful objects, the Crab Nebula. The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer or IXPE observatory was launched in December ...