NASA’s Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer which launched Dec. 9, 2021, has delivered its first imaging data since completing its month-long commissioning phase. All instruments are functioning well ...
By then, IXPE and numerous other telescopes and instruments were already collecting data. It was exhilarating to observe the outburst all the way through its return to inactivity." Until late 2023, ...
As a star nears the end of its life, it runs out of fuel and collapses under the force of its own gravity. The stellar death leaves behind gas and dust in the form of an explosion that can look to our ...
Initially launching on December 9th, 2021, the IXPE has since completed its month-long commissioning phase and confirmed all instruments are in working order. The first object of IXPE's attention is ...
New Delhi: NASA has used its Imaging X-ray Polarization Explorer (IXPE) spacecraft to study a white dwarf star for the first time. A white dwarf is the remnant core of a dead star, that violently shed ...