Move over, Pillars of Creation—there’s a new show in town and it’s called MSH 15-52. Catchy, we know. Okay, really it’s not a new show—better to call it a revival. The eerie pulsar wind ...

Astronomers have just solved a long-standing mystery about a rare, rapidly spinning neutron star known as PSR J1023+0038.

Astronomers studying a rare neutron star system have uncovered a surprising source of powerful X-rays. Using NASA s IXPE ...

Observations of a pulsar, consisting of a dead star spinning 600 times a second, and feasting on a stellar companion reveal ...

It's the first time researchers have been able to map the magnetic field in a pulsar using X-ray telescopes. 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays. Watch Now. 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays.

In 2001, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory first observed the pulsar PSR B1509-58 and revealed that its pulsar wind nebula (referred to as MSH 15-52) resembles a human hand.

Xie et al. detected X-ray polarization from the Vela pulsar wind nebula using data from NASA’s Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission, which was launched in December 2021.

How about the “ghostly cosmic hand” of a star corpse that exists 16,000 light-years away from Earth? With the help of NASA‘s newest X-ray telescope, the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer ...

NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) launches aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 1 a.m. EST on Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.