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NASA Space Telescope Maps Magnetic Fields of ‘Lighthouse’ Pulsar


For the first time, scientists have used NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) to directly measure the magnetic fields of PSR J1101−6101, a pulsar

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