This artist’s concept depicts a smaller white dwarf star pulling material from a larger star, right, into an accretion disk.
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NASA's IXPE successfully studies a distant white dwarf star for the first time in history
NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarization Explorer (IXPE) just studied a white dwarf for the first time ever. The study, according to NASA, involved using X-ray polarization—a feature unique to IXPE—to ...
NASA’s IXPE has just revealed the hidden geometry of a white dwarf’s cosmic feeding frenzy—using X-rays to see what no ...
NASA’s IXPE has become the first observatory to measure a white dwarf star. It used its X-Ray polarization to reveal the ...
NASA’s IXPE captures the first X-ray polarization data from a white dwarf system, detailing observations of EX Hydrae and ...
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NASA's IXPE spends over 600 hours observing a galaxy cluster, solves a major black hole mystery
With the help of a specialized space telescope, scientists have finally figured out how a supermassive black hole's jet emits X-rays. According to NASA, the finding in a study published in The ...
By Michael Allen For the first time, scientists have used NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarization Explorer) to study a white ...
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