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Editor’s Note, April 3, 2024: IXPE resumed normal science operations on April 3. Learn more https://blogs.nasa.gov/ixpe/2024/04/03/ixpe-operations-update-2/. On March 23, NASA’s…
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NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) team has been awarded a top prize in high-energy astronomy. The High Energy Astrophysics…
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The powerful gravity fields of black holes can devour whole planets’ worth of matter – often so violently that they…
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On Dec. 9, astronomers and physicists will commemorate two years of landmark X-ray science by NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry…
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In 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays and used them to image the bones in his wife’s hand, kicking off a…
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NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) telescope has captured the first polarized X-ray imagery of the supernova remnant SN 1006.…
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An international team of astrophysicists, using new data from NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), published findings about the blazar…
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Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, woke some 200 years ago to…
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In the center of this galaxy is a supermassive black hole feeding off the gas and dust encircling it, and…
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On Feb. 22, 1971, a sounding rocket lifted off from Wallops Island, Virginia, with specialized sensors aimed at the Crab…
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Scientists have created a detailed, nuanced map of the Crab Nebula’s magnetic field, revealing more of its inner workings than…
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On Sunday, Oct. 9, 2022, a pulse of intense radiation swept through the solar system so exceptional that astronomers quickly…
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About 10,000 years ago, light from the explosion of a giant star in the constellation Vela arrived at Earth. This…
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About 10,000 years ago, a giant star exploded in the constellation Vela, leaving behind a dense object called a pulsar…
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An international team of scientists has uncovered new information about the remains of a star whose explosion was discovered 450…