25 points | by wglb 5 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/
This is not very newsworthy, stellar flares are common and known to emit X-rays.
Article in https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16679
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/
This is not very newsworthy, stellar flares are common and known to emit X-rays.
Article in https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16679