{"id":136949,"date":"2022-03-17T01:02:21","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T08:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/1st-image-from-nasas-new-ixpe-x-ray-telescope-looks-like-a-ball-of-purple-lightning"},"modified":"2022-03-17T01:02:21","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T08:02:21","slug":"1st-image-from-nasas-new-ixpe-x-ray-telescope-looks-like-a-ball-of-purple-lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/1st-image-from-nasas-new-ixpe-x-ray-telescope-looks-like-a-ball-of-purple-lightning","title":{"rendered":"1st image from NASA\u2019s new IXPE X-ray telescope looks like a ball of purple lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/1st-image-from-nasas-new-ixpe-x-ray-telescope-looks-like-a-ball-of-purple-lightning2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s newly-launched X-ray hunting probe has snapped its first science image and \u2014 wow \u2014 it\u2019s spectacular.<\/p>\n<p>The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) probe launched Dec. 9, 2021, on a mission to observe objects like black holes and neutron stars in X-ray light, shedding much-anticipated light on the inner workings of the cosmos. The probe spent its first month in space checking out its various systems to get ready to capture its first images, and now the IXPE team has released its very first science image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s newly-launched X-ray hunting probe has snapped its first science image and \u2014 wow \u2014 it\u2019s spectacular. The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) probe launched Dec. 9, 2021, on a mission to observe objects like black holes and neutron stars in X-ray light, shedding much-anticipated light on the inner workings of the cosmos. The probe [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}