Einstein Probe detects an X-ray flare from nearby star
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by wglb
3 hours ago
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| phys.org
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martinpw
2 minutes 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/

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gammarator
56 minutes ago
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This is not very newsworthy, stellar flares are common and known to emit X-rays.
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wglb
3 hours ago
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