NASA’s IXPE Stuns Astronomers With New Blazar Discovery
The universe is teeming with powerful supermassive black holes that spawn powerful jets of high-energy particles, creating sources of extreme brightness in the vastness of…
IXPE News
Read the latest news on NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), a space observatory that exploits the polarization state of light from astrophysical sources to provide insight into our understanding of X-ray production in objects such as neutron stars and pulsar wind nebulae, as well as stellar and supermassive black holes.
From Sounding Rockets to Satellites: The 50-Year Journey To Map the Crab Nebula’s Magnetic Field
NASA’s IXPE has created a detailed map of the Crab Nebula’s magnetic field, revealing its complex geometry and turbulence, and refining the angle of polarization…
NASA’s IXPE Uses Vela Pulsar Wind Nebula as an Extreme Astrophysics Laboratory
About 10,000 years ago, light from the explosion of a giant star in the constellation Vela arrived at Earth. This supernova left behind a dense…
NASA’s IXPE Quickly Observes Aftermath of Incredible Cosmic Blast – “This Is Now or Never”
NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory detected a high-energy blast of light from deep space on October 9, 2022. The light…
NASA’s Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) Celebrates 1 Year of Exploring the Cosmos
NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) lit up the early morning sky one year ago as it started its journey into space. The satellite was…
Astrophysicists Solve 40-Year-Old Black Hole Jet Mystery With NASA’s IXPE
Blazars are some of the brightest objects in the cosmos. They are composed of a supermassive black hole feeding off material swirling around it in…
Surprising Results From NASA’s IXPE Help Unlock the Secrets of Famous Exploded Star
For the first time, astronomers have measured and mapped polarized X-rays from a supernova remnant, Cassiopeia A (Cas A), using NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer…
X-Ray Polarimetry: Pushing the Boundaries of Space Exploration
Researchers introduce an imaging X-ray polarimetry mission that enables new measurements of cosmic X-ray sources. Humankind has long been fascinated by the secrets hidden in…
NASA’s IXPE Mission Checks Out X-Rays From Extreme Cosmic Objects
NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission, a joint effort with the Italian Space Agency, has returned data that no other spacecraft has obtained before…
See the First Stunning Image From NASA’s New X-Ray Observatory
It’s first light for one of the newest space observatories! The Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer team has released their first image, taken after a month-long…
NASA IXPE Observatory’s First Stunning Image: The Glowing Remains of an Exploded Star
NASA’s Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer, which launched December 9, 2021, has delivered its first imaging data since completing its month-long commissioning phase. All instruments are…
NASA’s New IXPE Mission Opens Its Eyes and Is Ready for Discovery!
NASA’s newest X-ray eyes are open and ready for discovery! Having spent just over a month in space, the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) is…
NASA’s New IXPE Observatory Unfolds Its Origami Boom for Science
NASA’s newest X-ray observatory – the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer, or IXPE – extended its boom successfully December 15, giving IXPE the ability to see…
SpaceX Rocket Launches NASA’s IXPE Space Observatory – To Explore the Most Extreme and Mysterious Objects in the Universe
NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission launched at 1 a.m. EST Thursday, December 9, 2021, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy…
NASA’s Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) Mission Is Set To Launch – How To Watch Live
NASA will provide coverage of the upcoming prelaunch and launch activities for the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission, the first satellite dedicated to measuring…
New NASA Mission to Study Black Holes, Cosmic X-ray Mysteries
A new NASA mission will allow astronomers to explore the hidden details of some of the most extreme and exotic astronomical objects, such as stellar…
