« BackEinstein Probe detects an X-ray flare from nearby starphys.orgSubmitted by wglb 5 hours ago
  • martinpw 2 hours 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

    But this is a new Chinese instrument, also an X-ray telescope, also called Einstein:

    https://ep.bao.ac.cn/ep/

    • gammarator 3 hours ago

      This is not very newsworthy, stellar flares are common and known to emit X-rays.

      • wglb 5 hours ago

        Article in https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16679