Md Rahmat Ali Sagor

Nasa will be launching its Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer mission or IXPE to measure X-rays released by black holes and neutron stars aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. It's a collaborative effort of Nasa and Italian Space Agency. Though IXPE isn't as big as Nasa's Chandra X-ray observatory, it is the first of its kind which has an accumulation of three telescopes. The satellite sees an often overlooked aspect of cosmic ray sources called polarisation. As to IXPE, it would be acknowledging us the most precise nature of cosmic X-ray sources than studying their brightness and colour spectrum which is conventional till now, opined its principal investigator. Scientists rely on X-ray telescopes in space as it confronts powerful magnetic fields, collisions between objects, explosions, scorching temperatures and rapid rotations robustly proving its highly energetic wavelength signature of light which is repelled by Earth's atmosphere from reaching the ground.