Monday, October 28, 2019

Neighborhood View

Large Magellanic Cloud, our galactic neighbor
On Oct. 22, 2019, the inaugural images from the German X-ray telescope eROSITA were presented to the public at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) in Bavaria, Germany. These "first light" images are a combination of pictures from all seven of the telescope's Wolter-1 mirror modules, which have been scanning the sky with custom CCD cameras.  --- Space.com

eROSITA X-ray telescope

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