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This 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.
by martinpw 10mo ago
This 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 10mo agoChinese + ESA contributions
- xioxox 10mo agoChina + ESA + Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) + Centro Nacional de Estudios Espaciales (CNES) contributions
- xioxox 10mo 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.