
NASA’s Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer Unlocks Mysteries of Historic Tycho Supernova
An international team of scientists has uncovered new information about the remains of a star that exploded more than 450 years ago. […]
An international team of scientists has uncovered new information about the remains of a star that exploded more than 450 years ago. […]
The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission, the first satellite dedicated to measuring the polarization of X-rays from a variety of cosmic sources, such as black holes and neutron stars, is scheduled to launch no earlier than 1 a.m. EST Thursday, Dec. 9, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. […]
NASA is gearing up to launch a new set of X-ray eyes on the cosmos. The first space observatory of its kind, the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer, or IXPE, is built to study some of the most energetic objects in the universe – the remnants of exploded stars, powerful particle jets spewing from feeding black holes, and much more. […]