{"id":11604,"date":"2026-08-07T14:27:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T14:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsboxed.com\/?p=11604"},"modified":"2026-08-07T14:27:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T14:27:35","slug":"nasas-ixpe-studies-magnetar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsboxed.com\/?p=11604","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s IXPE Studies Magnetar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\">\n<div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\">\n<div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\">\n<figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ixpemagnetarartistsconcept-web.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1755\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ixpemagnetarartistsconcept-web.png?w=2048\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"This artist\u2019s concept depicts magnetar 1E 1547.0-5408, a rapidly rotating neutron star with magnetic fields over a trillion times stronger than Earth\u2019s. Blue curves emanating from the star&apos;s two magnetic poles represent the magnetic field lines. The magnetar is a significant emitter of radio and X-ray radiation, with their peaks offset during its 2.1-second rotation period. This indicates the primary X-ray emitter is a secondary \u201chot spot\u201d offset from the magnetic axis. These emitters are depicted as conical sections: the lighter blue radio emission peaks at the magnetic field&apos;s symmetry axis, while the darker blue X-ray emission peaks below.\" style=\"object-position: 50% 50%;object-fit: cover\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\">\n<div class=\"hds-credits\">NASA\/Pablo Garcia<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scientists using <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/ixpe\/\" rel=\"noopener\">NASA\u2019s IXPE<\/a> (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) conducted more than 140 hours of observations of the magnetar 1E 1547-5408, shown in this Aug. 5, 2026, artist&#8217;s concept, between March and April 2025. In doing so, they <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/missions\/ixpe\/nasas-ixpe-may-have-proven-90-year-old-theory\/\" rel=\"noopener\">may have captured empty space behaving in a way physicists have predicted for 90 years<\/a>, but never directly observed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Magnetars are a special class of neutron stars with ultra-strong magnetic fields, the strongest of any object in the observable universe, around a trillion times stronger than the strongest permanent magnets ever built on Earth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Image credit: NASA\/Pablo Garcia<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/image-article\/nasas-ixpe-studies-magnetar\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the original article<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\/Pablo Garcia Scientists using NASA\u2019s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) conducted more than 140 hours of observations of the magnetar 1E 1547-5408, shown in this Aug. 5, 2026, artist&#8217;s concept, between March and April 2025. In doing so, they may have captured empty space behaving in a way physicists have predicted for 90 years, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsboxed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsboxed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsboxed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsboxed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsboxed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsboxed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsboxed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsboxed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsboxed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsboxed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}