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Einstein Probe detects an X-ray flare from nearby star
- wglb 9mo agoArticle in https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16679 https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16679
- gammarator 9mo agoThis is not very newsworthy, stellar flares are common and known to emit X-rays.
- martinpw 9mo agoThis threw me at first. There was an NASA X-ray imaging telescope in the late 70s/early 80s called Einstein: https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/einstein/heao2.html https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/einstein/heao2.html But this is a new Chinese instrument, also an X-ray telescope, also called Einstein: https://ep.bao.ac.cn/ep/ https://ep.bao.ac.cn/ep/
- NoiseBert69 9mo agoChinese + ESA contributions
- xioxox 9mo agoChina + ESA + Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) + Centro Nacional de Estudios Espaciales (CNES) contributions
- xioxox 9mo agoPedantically, it's Einstein Probe (EP), not Einstein. Confusingly, in Chinese it has another name, Tianguan, commemorating the observation of the supernova which created the Crab Nebula.
- ralfhn 9mo agoFor a second I was really confused about what Epstein had to do with x-rays
- justarandomname 9mo agoSAME, I thought there was a bit flip in the files or something.
- aussieguy1234 9mo agoIf measured the way we measure solar flares (M1, X1 etc) what would this one be rated as?