A Chinese/European joint X-ray telescope mission is allowing humans to see the universe in widescreen — like a lobster.
The Einstein Probe, a collaboration between the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the European Space Agency, Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE), and France’s National Centre for Space Studies (CNES), has designed a telescope that mimics the vision of lobsters, Live Science reported.
The probe, which launched on January 9 aboard a Chinese rocket, is in a testing phase as it orbits the Earth. Its ground-breaking observations were unveiled at a recent symposium in Beijing.
China’s Einstein Probe (EP) astronomical #satellite, launched this January, has captured its first in-orbit detection images. With new X-ray detection tech to observe the universe’s transient phenomena,
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