{"id":406069,"date":"2026-03-27T03:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T03:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/406069\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T03:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T03:32:14","slug":"nasas-ixpe-gets-fresh-look-at-supernova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/406069\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA&#8217;s IXPE Gets Fresh Look at Supernova"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission\/imaging-x-ray-polarimetry-explorer-ixpe\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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<p>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<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/image-article\/nasa-x-ray-mission-gets-fresh-look-at-2000-year-old-supernova\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more about this image.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[270],"tags":[18,19,17,133,451,23600],"class_list":["post-406069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-space","tag-supernova-remnants"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116299035648574562","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}