33 points | by wglb 9 hours ago ago
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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.html
But this is a new Chinese instrument, also an X-ray telescope, also called Einstein:
https://ep.bao.ac.cn/ep/
If measured the way we measure solar flares (M1, X1 etc) what would this one be rated as?
This is not very newsworthy, stellar flares are common and known to emit X-rays.
Article in https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16679
For a second I was really confused about what Epstein had to do with x-rays
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/
If measured the way we measure solar flares (M1, X1 etc) what would this one be rated as?
This is not very newsworthy, stellar flares are common and known to emit X-rays.
Article in https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16679
For a second I was really confused about what Epstein had to do with x-rays