IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer)

IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer)
General
NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) team has been awarded a top prize in high-energy astronomy.
Posted January 23, 2024
IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer)
General
Marshall Space Flight Center
The powerful gravity fields of black holes can devour whole planets’ worth of matter – often so violently that they expel streams of particles traveling near the speed of light in  formations known as jets.
Posted January 16, 2024
IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer)
Marshall Space Flight Center
The Universe
On Dec. 9, astronomers and physicists will commemorate two years of landmark X-ray science by NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) mission. IXPE is the joint NASA-Italian Space Agency mission to study polarized X-ray light.
Posted December 8, 2023
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Astrophysics
IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer)
Marshall Space Flight Center
The Universe
In 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays and used them to image the bones in his wife’s hand, kicking off a revolutionary diagnostic tool for medicine. Now two of NASA’s X-ray space telescopes have combined their imaging powers to unveil the magnetic field “bones” of a remarkable hand-shaped structure in space.
Posted October 30, 2023
IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer)
Marshall Space Flight Center
NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) telescope has captured the first polarized X-ray imagery of the supernova remnant SN 1006. The new results expand scientists’ understanding of the relationship between magnetic fields and the flow of high-energy particles from exploding stars.
Posted October 26, 2023
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