Nancy Atkinson - The First Image From NASA’s new X-ray Observatory:

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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 commissioning phase for the spacecraft. And it’s a beauty. IXPE looked at a favorite target among space observatories, the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A. While x-rays are invisible to human eyes, … Continue reading "The First Image From NASA’s new X-ray Observatory"

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