A first-of-its-kind measurement of a magnetar may have captured empty space behaving in a way physicists have predicted for 90 years, but never directly observed. The results published Wednesday in Nature. Fast facts Scientists using NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) conducted more than 140 hours of observations of the magnetar 1E 1547-5408 between March […]
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IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer), Magnetars, Marshall Astrophysics, Marshall Space Flight Center, Neutron Stars, The Universe
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August 5, 2026
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