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NASA’s IXPE May Have Proven 90-Year-Old Theory

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August 5, 2026 • 64 views
Original source: NASA

A first of its kind measurement of a magnetar may have captured empty space behaving in a way physicists have predicted for 90 years, but never directly observed. The results published Wednesday in Nature. Fast facts Scientists using NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) conducted more th...

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