NASA’s IXPE telescope just gave us front-row seats to a cosmic showdown: a white dwarf star literally sucking the life out of its neighbor! Thanks to polarized X-ray vision, scientists saw how the star’s insane magnetic field funnels gas into super-hot plasma columns—think space smokestacks over 100 million degrees. This is the first time we’ve seen the hidden structure of such a wild system, and it’s changing how we understand stellar drama and explosions. Who knew space could be this savage? #Science #NASA #SpaceNews