NASA’s IXPE Measures White Dwarf Star for First Time
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This artist’s concept depicts a smaller white dwarf star pulling material from a larger star, right, into an accretion disk. Earlier this year, scientists used NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarization Explorer) to study a white dwarf star and its X-ray polarization. MIT/Jose-Luis Olivares By Michael Allen For the first time, scientists have used NASA’s IXPE (Imaging […]