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

NASA's IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) has helped astronomers better understand the shapes of structures essential to a black hole—specifically, the disk of material swirling around it ...

“Transitional millisecond pulsars are cosmic laboratories, helping us understand how neutron stars evolve in binary systems,” ...

With the help of NASA ‘s newest X-ray telescope, the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), researchers at Stanford University have given us a whole new view of pulsar PSR B1509-58 and its ...

An international team of astronomers has uncovered new evidence to explain how pulsing remnants of exploded stars interact with surrounding matter deep in the cosmos, using observations from NASA’s ...

NASA released images of a pulsar and pulsar wind that resemble a hand Monday. The observation provided information on the dynamics of a dead star ...

NASA's IXPE just produced the first-ever X-ray polarization data of the Vela pulsar wind nebula.

NASA's Earth-orbiting IXPE satellite, which launched on Dec. 9, 2021, has helped to unravel the pulsar's chaotic surroundings, which were previously not well understood.