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IXPE Measures X-ray Polarization of Magnetar Outburst

Astronomers using NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) focused on 1E 1841-045, a magnetar located in the supernova remnant (SNR) Kes 73 nearly 28,000 light-years from Earth.

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