New IXPE Spacecraft Launches to Analyze X-Ray Spectra
NASA launched its new X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission aboard a SpaceX Falcon9 rocket on December 9 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The joint mission with the Italian Space Agency, the IXPE observatory is the first mission dedicated entirely to studying the polarization of X-rays from some of the oddest objects in the universe, including supernova black holes, high-energy stars, and other phenomena too difficult to study with terrestrial equipment.
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