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NASA Space Telescope Maps Magnetic Fields of ‘Lighthouse’ Pulsar
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For the first time, scientists have used NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) to directly measure the magnetic fields of PSR J1101−6101, a pulsar located within what is often referred to as the Lighthouse Nebula. The results provide new insight…
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Principal Investigator and Quality Assessment Reports Evaluate Umbra Synthetic Aperture Radar Data
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The reports add to the growing documentation on commercial data's contributions to Earth science research and applications.
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NASA Scientists Take to Air and Space to Study Arctic Sea Ice
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This month, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California are testing a spacecraft sensor that will help measure how quickly Arctic sea ice is disappearing. And while that instrument won’t launch for another year, scientists started preparing for…
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