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On 9th December, around 1:00 am ET aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was launched from Nasa’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This mission marks a unique step forward for X-ray Astronomy X-ray Polarimetry Explorer mission, or IXPE, which is the collaborative effort of Nasa and the Italian Space Agency, Its purpose is to measure X-rays released by black holes, neutron stars, supernova remnants and other high-energy objects. The satellite will be able to see an overlooked aspect of cosmic ray sources called polarization. IXPE tells us more about the exact nature of cosmic X-ray sources than we can learn by studying their brightness and color. Polarized light bears the unique stamp of its source and what it passed through on the way While waves of light can vibrate in any direction, polarized light only vibrates in one direction.