Md Siruzzaman

NASA successfully launched its Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer mission, or IXPE aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to measure X-rays released by black holes and neutron stars. The spacecraft, which is the collaborative effort of NASA and the Italian Space Agency, carries three telescopes not as big as NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory, it is the first space observatory of its kind but will be able to see an often overlooked aspect of cosmic ray sources called polarization. IXPE will tell us more about the precise nature of cosmic X-ray sources than we can learn by studying their brightness and color spectrum alone. Using IXPE to study the polarization of cosmic X-rays could help scientists better understand the remnants of exploded stars, like black holes and neutron stars, their environments and how they produce X-rays. The satellite's eyes on the universe include sensitive polarization detectors which can capture images of the X-rays and measure their polarization. This is going to be groundbreaking in terms of X-ray data acquisition.