NASA and the Italian Space Agency are leading a global team of technologists, researchers, and mission engineering specialists to launch the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer mission, which will study some of the most energetic objects in the cosmos – exploded stars, black holes, and more – and shed new light on how X-rays are generated.
NASA and the Italian Space Agency are leading a global team of technologists, researchers, and mission engineering specialists to launch the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer mission, which will study some of the most energetic objects in the cosmos – exploded stars, black holes, and more – and shed new light on how X-rays are generated.
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