NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) telescope has reached a groundbreaking milestone, capturing the first polarised X-ray images of the supernova remnant SN 1006, a colossal cosmic ...

Although nearly invisible today, the supernova of 1006, or SN 1006, was perhaps the brightest stellar event ever to occur in recorded human history. At its peak, the supernova was about the ...