Telescope captures breathtaking new X-ray map of the sky - CBS News

According to news releases, the eROSITA X-ray telescope on the space observatory Spektr-RG aircraft was launched in July last year and finally reached its final position of more than 900 million miles from Earth in December.

They produce images using what are called Aitoff projections, run horizontally in the center of the Milky Way, color-coded photons according to their energy, and project the entire sky onto an ellipse.

This new map of the hot, energetic universe contains more than a million X-ray objects (also called X-ray sources). That's about ten times what was found in the last full-scale sweep 30 years ago.

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Telescope captures breathtaking new X-ray map of the sky

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