NASA’s IXPE has peered into a nearby white dwarf system, revealing towering X-ray emitting gas columns and hidden stellar ...

A smaller white dwarf star (left) pulls material from a larger star into a swirling accretion disk in this artist's concept ...

NASA’s IXPE captures the first X-ray polarization data from a white dwarf system, detailing observations of EX Hydrae and ...

NASA’s IXPE has just revealed the hidden geometry of a white dwarf’s cosmic feeding frenzy—using X-rays to see what no ...

Using NASA’s IXPE, astronomers captured an unprecedented view of a white dwarf star actively feeding on material from a companion. The data revealed giant columns of ultra-hot gas shaped by the star’s ...

This artist's concept depicts a smaller white dwarf star pulling material from a larger star, right, into an accretion disk.

By Michael AllenFor the first time, scientists have used NASA's IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarization Explorer) to study a white ...

Scientists have used NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarisation Explorer) to study a white dwarf star for the first time. By ...

NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarization Explorer (IXPE) just studied a white dwarf for the first time ever. The study, according to ...

An intermediate polar system within a white dwarf star implies that the materials from the companion star accumulate at the ...

Sometimes progress in space science does not arrive with a flash. It comes quietly, through patient observation, and then settles into place. That is .

NASA’s IXPE has identified the origin of X-rays in a supermassive black hole’s jet. (Image: NASA/CXC/SAO) NASA scientists have solved a long-standing astrophysical mystery. The study explains how ...