The European Space Agency (ESA), together with the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, is preparing to launch the new Einstein Space Telescope. Equipped with ‘lobster eye’ camera to capture X-rays, official says Web site ESA.
The object of the device’s research will be X-ray bursts emitted from black holes, collisions of neutron stars and supernova explosions.
Because neutron-star collisions emit both billions of light years.
The probe’s equipment includes two X-ray devices: wide-field (WXT) and high-precision (EXT) telescopes.
WXT has a very wide viewing angle thanks to its lobster eye design. Unlike other animals, lobsters perceive light through reflection rather than refraction, giving them a 180-degree field of vision.
WXT uses “micropore optical technology” that allows the Einstein probe to cover 10% of the entire celestial sphere in a single image. To create a complete map of space, the device would need only three orbits around the Earth, which would take about five hours.
When a powerful burst of X-ray radiation is detected, the instrument will point its highly sensitive EXT telescope at it and send a signal to ground-based observatories, allowing the source to be studied in all frequency ranges, from long radio waves to short radio waves. Gamma rays.
The Einstein mission is scheduled to launch in January 2024.
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