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NASA’s IXPE Helps Researchers Determine Shape of Black Hole Corona
New findings using data from NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) mission offer unprecedented insight into the shape and nature…
Revealing the Hidden Universe with Full-shell X-ray Optics at NASA MSFC
The study of X-ray emission from astronomical objects reveals secrets about the Universe at the largest and smallest spatial scales.…
How Students Learn to Fly NASA’s IXPE Spacecraft
The large wall monitor displaying a countdown shows 17 seconds when Amelia “Mia” De Herrera-Schnering tells her teammates “We have…
Coming in Hot — NASA’s Chandra Checks Habitability of Exoplanets
This graphic shows a three-dimensional map of stars near the Sun. These stars are close enough that they could be…
MSFC Scientist Participates in Black Hole Week
On 5/9/24 NASA Universe celebrated Black Hole Week with a Q & A session on several NASA social media accounts.…
REDSoX Holds Successful PDR at MIT
On 3/25/24, Astrophysics Branch scientist, Stephen Bongiorno, presented at the Rocket Experiment Demonstration of a Soft X-ray (REDSoX) Polarimeter preliminary…