NASA’s IXPE Studies Magnetar

PRESSIVIO NEWS BRIEF · SCIENCE

Pressivio’s Science desk has added the source report “NASA’s IXPE Studies Magnetar” to its international monitoring stream.

Scientists using NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) conducted more than 140 hours of observations of the magnetar 1E 1547-5408, shown in this Aug. 5, 2026, artist’s concept, between March and April 2025. In doing so, they may have captured empty space behaving in a way physicists have predicted for 90 years, but never directly […]