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    Neutron Star’s X-rays reveal ‘Photon Metamorphosis’

    May 8, 2023, Categories  Astronomy/Space

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    This image of the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A, the first object observed by NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) satellite, combines some of the first X-ray data collected by IXPE, shown in magenta, with high-energy X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory, in blue. The satellite later detected polarized X-rays from 4U 0142+61, a highly magnetized neutron star located in the Cassiopeia constellation.

    A “beautiful effect” predicted by quantum electrodynamics (QED) can explain the puzzling first observations of polarized Xrays emitted by a magnetar – a neutron star featuring a powerful magnetic field, according to a Cornell astrophysicist.

    The extremely dense and hot remnant of a massive star, boasting a magnetic field 100 trillion times str...

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    Rocket Launch to Image Supernova Remnant

    August 12, 2022, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    Cassiopeia A

    A Northwestern University astrophysics team is aiming for the stars—well, a dead star, that is.

    On Aug. 21, the NASA-funded team will launch its “Micro-X” rocket from White Sands Missile Range in southern New Mexico. The rocket will spend 15 minutes in space—just enough time to snap a quick image of supernova remnant Cassiopeia A, a star in the Cassiopeia constellation that exploded approximately 11,000 light-years away from Earth. Then, the rocket will parachute back to Earth, landing in the desert—about 45 miles from the launchpad—where the Northwestern team will recover its payload.

    Short for “high-resolution microcalorimeter Xray imaging rocket,” the Micro-X rocket will carry a superconductor-based X-ray imaging spectrometer that is capable of measuring t...

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