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Einstein Probe detects an X-ray flare from nearby star

https://phys.org/news/2025-12-einstein-probe-ray-flare-nearby.html
17•wglb•3h ago

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wglb•3h ago
Article in https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16679
gammarator•1h ago
This is not very newsworthy, stellar flares are common and known to emit X-rays.
martinpw•18m ago
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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Einstein Probe detects an X-ray flare from nearby star

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