{"id":533376,"date":"2026-07-19T08:26:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T08:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/533376\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T08:26:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T08:26:18","slug":"nasas-chandra-and-ixpe-study-pulsar-in-lighthouse-nebula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/533376\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA&#8217;s Chandra and IXPE Study Pulsar in Lighthouse Nebula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This composite image, released on July 9, 2026, shows the region around a <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/hubble\/science\/science-behind-the-discoveries\/hubble-pulsars\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">pulsar<\/a> \u2013 a neutron star with a strong magnetic field that spins incredibly fast \u2013 within the Lighthouse nebula. The image contains X-ray data from NASA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/chandra\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Chandra X-ray Observatory<\/a> in purple, X-rays from NASA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/ixpe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">IXPE<\/a> (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) in blue, and radio emission captured by the Australia Compact Telescope Array in green.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scientists used IXPE \u2013 for the first time ever \u2013 to directly measure the magnetic fields of the pulsar. The results provide new insight into the structure of some of the most extreme objects in the cosmos, as NASA continues to explore the secrets of how the universe works. A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.3847\/1538-4357\/ae64f3\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">paper describing the results<\/a>\u00a0published July 9 in the Astrophysical Journal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/missions\/ixpe\/nasa-space-telescope-maps-magnetic-fields-of-lighthouse-pulsar\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Read more about this novel use of IXPE.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Image credit: X-ray: Chandra: NASA\/CXC\/Stanford Univ.\/J. Dinsmore et al.; IXPE: NASA\/MSFC\/J. Dinsmore et al., Radio: CSIRO\/ATNF\/ATCA; Optical: 2MASS\/UMass\/IPAC-Caltech\/NASA\/NSF; Image processing: NASA\/CXC\/SAO\/L. Frattare<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This composite image, released on July 9, 2026, shows the region around a pulsar \u2013 a neutron star&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-533376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}