A “Dead” Star Comes Alive in a Stunning NASA X-Ray View

NASA’s IXPE has just revealed the hidden geometry of a white dwarf’s cosmic feeding frenzy—using X-rays to see what no telescope could before. Scientists have used NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarization Explorer) to study a white dwarf star for the first time. By measuring the polarization of X-rays, the mission allowed astronomers to investigate the [...]