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A Chinese/European joint X-ray telescope mission is allowing humans to see the universe in widescreen — like a lobster.
The probe, which launched on January 9 aboard a Chinese rocket, is in a testing phase as it orbits the Earth. Its ground-breaking observations were unveiled at a recent symposium in Beijing., launched this January, has captured its first in-orbit detection images. With new X-ray detection tech to observe the universe's transient phenomena, EP has so far detected 17 X-ray transients & 127 stellar flares.
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