We have a bit of good news from a NASA space telescope that has returned its first bit of science.
No, not that one.
I’m talking about the NASA Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer, or IXPE, which has returned its first science image: a pretty picture of the X-ray emission from the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant. The released data shows a violet donut, and NASA has combined it with a web of Chandra data to create a stunning image that looks more like medical imaging than astrophysics. We have a high-resolution version of this image available at DailySpace.org.
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