{"id":205118,"date":"2024-02-09T07:51:38","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T07:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/09\/5-amazing-things-discovered-by-the-erosita-x-ray-telescope\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:21:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:21:59","slug":"5-amazing-things-discovered-by-the-erosita-x-ray-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/09\/5-amazing-things-discovered-by-the-erosita-x-ray-telescope\/","title":{"rendered":"5 amazing things discovered by the eROSITA X-ray telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article-image-inline ArticleImage\" data-method=\"caption-shortcode\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImage__Wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/08131957\/SEI_189758025.jpg?width=1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/08131957\/SEI_189758025.jpg?width=100 100w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/08131957\/SEI_189758025.jpg?width=200 200w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/08131957\/SEI_189758025.jpg?width=249 249w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/08131957\/SEI_189758025.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/08131957\/SEI_189758025.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/08131957\/SEI_189758025.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/08131957\/SEI_189758025.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/08131957\/SEI_189758025.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/08131957\/SEI_189758025.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/08131957\/SEI_189758025.jpg?width=900 900w\" class=\"image size-full wp-image-2416402 ReplaceImageLazyload\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1130px) 900px, (min-width: 1025px) 900, (min-width: 768px) calc(100vw - 30px), calc(100vw - 30px)\" alt=\"The Spektr-RG spacecraft, which carries the eROSITA X-ray telescope\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" data-credit=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dlr_de\/48092029201\/in\/album-72157709154538987\/ DLR (CC-BY 3.0)\" data-caption=\"The Spektr-RG spacecraft carries the eROSITA X-ray telescope\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">The Spektr-RG spacecraft carries the eROSITA X-ray telescope<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dlr_de\/48092029201\/in\/album-72157709154538987\/ DLR (CC-BY 3.0)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>The widest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article-topic\/x-rays\/\">X-ray<\/a> survey of the night sky has revealed some of the most extreme and violent processes in the universe, from forbidden stars to pulsating supermassive black holes, as well as tracing the universe\u2019s overall web-like structure.<\/p>\n<p>The eROSITA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2282557-rare-supernova-could-help-us-understand-the-milky-ways-ancient-halo\/\">X-ray telescope<\/a>, which was launched aboard the Russian-German Spektr-RG space observatory in 2019, is designed to capture the broadest and most sensitive view of the universe in X-rays.\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2416383-5-amazing-things-discovered-by-the-erosita-x-ray-telescope\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=home\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The Spektr-RG spacecraft carries the eROSITA X-ray telescope https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dlr_de\/48092029201\/in\/album-72157709154538987\/ DLR (CC-BY 3.0) The widest X-ray survey of the night sky has revealed some of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":205119,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205118"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344719,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205118\/revisions\/344719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}