{"id":394318,"date":"2026-03-27T02:58:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=e8dae4647cb1c10d173f185751e8a9ab"},"modified":"2026-03-27T02:58:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:58:30","slug":"nasas-ixpe-gets-fresh-look-at-supernova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=394318","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s IXPE Gets Fresh Look at Supernova"},"content":{"rendered":"
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X-ray: Chandra: NASA\/CXC\/SAO, XMM: ESA\/XMM-NEWTON, IXPE:NASA\/MSFC; Optical: NSF\/NOIRLab; Image Processing: NASA\/CXC\/SAO\/J. Schmidt<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

NASA\u2019s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer)<\/a> mission has taken a new observation of a supernova, RCW 86, seen here in an image released on March 24, 2026. This observation helps fill in a fuller picture of what other telescopes have seen.<\/p>\n

The full image combines IXPE\u2019s data with legacy observations from two other X-ray telescopes: NASA\u2019s Chandra and the ESA (European Space Agency) XMM-Newton telescope. The yellow represents low-energy X-rays, while blue shows high-energy X-rays detected by Chandra and XMM-Newton. The starfield in the image comes from the National Science Foundation\u2019s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory (NOIRLab).<\/p>\n

Learn more about this image.<\/a><\/p>\n

Image credit: X-ray: Chandra: NASA\/CXC\/SAO, XMM: ESA\/XMM-NEWTON, IXPE:NASA\/MSFC; Optical: NSF\/NOIRLab; Image Processing: NASA\/CXC\/SAO\/J. Schmidt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NASA\u2019s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) mission has taken a new observation of a supernova, RCW 86, seen here in an image released on March 24, 2026. This observation helps fill in a fuller picture of what other telescopes have seen. The full image combines IXPE\u2019s data with legacy observations from two other X-ray telescopes: [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supernova-remnants"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=394318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394385,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394318\/revisions\/394385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=394318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=394318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=394318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}