{"id":586812,"date":"2026-08-08T08:16:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T08:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/586812\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T08:16:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T08:16:17","slug":"nasas-ixpe-studies-magnetar-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/586812\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA&#8217;s IXPE Studies Magnetar &#8211; NASA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scientists using <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/ixpe\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">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\u2019s 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 nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">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\">Image credit: NASA\/Pablo Garcia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scientists using NASA\u2019s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) conducted more than 140 hours of observations of the magnetar&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[61,60,201365,82,247],"class_list":["post-586812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-magnetars","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}