Breathtaking New Map of the X-ray Universe (bbc.com) 18
Behold the hot, energetic Universe. A German-Russian space telescope has just acquired a breakthrough map of the sky that traces the heavens in X-rays. From a report: The image records a lot of the violent action in the cosmos - instances where matter is being accelerated, heated and shredded. Feasting black holes, exploding stars, and searingly hot gas. The data comes from the eRosita instrument mounted on Spektr-RG. This orbiting telescope was launched in July last year and despatched to an observing position some 1.5 million km (930,000 miles) from Earth. Once commissioned and declared fully operational in December, it was left to slowly rotate and scan the depths of space. eRosita's first all-sky data-set, represented in the image at the top of this page, was completed only last week. It records over a million sources of X-rays. "That's actually pretty much the same number as had been detected in the whole history of X-ray astronomy going back 60 years. We've basically doubled the known sources in just six months," said Kirpal Nandra, who heads the high-energy astrophysics group at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) in Garching, Germany.
"The data is truly stunning and I think what we're doing here will revolutionise X-ray astronomy," he told BBC News.
have to use some of the radiology department (Score:1)
to put in more ICU beds and ventilators
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Get rid of jewellery, makeup, super cars, mega yachts, mansions, junk food, alchohol first huh, they waste more, they pollute more and they provide nothing to society except ego driven mass consumption to the fucking point of fucking insanity. Heaven forbid we should investigate the universe with the long term goal of colonising other stars. We all should just wallow like bloated pigs with our genitals on display in vain glorious acts of insanely excessive mass consumption and fucking glorify it (why the fu
Magnificent image (Score:2)
That's really a magnificent image.
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It is. I really love the outpouring of activity from the middle of the pic, supposedly the center of our own galaxy.
Better in the original [Re:Magnificent image] (Score:4, Informative)
That's really a magnificent image.
It cannot not be magnificent, with all false colors they mixed in.
Well, if they made the image in the original colors... not only would you not be able to see it, since your eyes don't see x-rays, you'd get irradiated just looking...
So, sometimes you have to use false colors.
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Re: Magnificent image (Score:1)
A psychedelic vagina. God is a horny druggy, explains the hair.
She hit the floor Next thing you know (Score:2)
Feasting black holes
Can't blame black holes for the inevitable...
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Let me talk to him
Let me talk to him
Let it rain
that looks like a head to me (Score:1)
You can clearly see the edge of the simulation (Score:2)
The matrix is slowly revealing its secrets.
More Info about all this (Score:5, Informative)
Here is the presskit and some pictures that show where things are:
http://www.mpe.mpg.de/7461950/... [mpe.mpg.de]
Already known? (Score:2)
It records over a million sources of X-rays. "That's actually pretty much the same number as had been detected in the whole history of X-ray astronomy going back 60 years. We've basically doubled the known sources in just six months,
If they doubled the number of known x-ray sources, wouldnâ(TM)t they have found twice the already known number? It says they found pretty much the same number, so I would think the majority of those would already be known. Unless they are very transient.
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From the real site:
This new map of the hot, energetic universe contains more than one million objects, roughly doubling the number of known X-ray sources discovered over the 60-year history of X-ray astronomy.
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Also:
This first complete sky image from eROSITA is about 4 times deeper than the previous all-sky survey by the ROSAT telescope 30 years ago, and has yielded around 10 times more sources: about as many as have been discovered by all past X-ray telescopes combined.
Wow (Score:2)
The universe is one sexy beast