How An X-Ray Actually Scan The Body? X-rays are beams of radiation that pass through your body. Bones absorb more X-rays and show up white, while soft tissues absorb less, appearing gray, and air, like in your lungs, shows up black. Credits: @ knovelcam / IG #tech #technology #engineering #innovative #reels | Tech Moments

We’ve just upgraded our X-ray vision of the cosmos with the launch of the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer, or IXPE for short. IXPE specializes in detecting a characteristic of light known as polarization, which tells how well the light is organized. Polarization can reveal things about the light source and the stuff that it has traveled through. What types of things will IXPE help us understand? 💥 Exploded stars kick out a rapidly expanding cloud of debris called a supernova remnant. X-rays