[HN Gopher] Einstein Probe detects an X-ray flare from nearby star
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Einstein Probe detects an X-ray flare from nearby star
Author : wglb
Score : 47 points
Date : 2026-01-03 01:29 UTC (21 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (phys.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (phys.org)
| wglb wrote:
| Article in https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16679
| gammarator wrote:
| This is not very newsworthy, stellar flares are common and known
| to emit X-rays.
| martinpw wrote:
| This threw me at first. There was an NASA X-ray imaging telescope
| in the late 70s/early 80s called Einstein:
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| https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/einstein/heao2.html
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| But this is a new Chinese instrument, also an X-ray telescope,
| also called Einstein:
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| https://ep.bao.ac.cn/ep/
| NoiseBert69 wrote:
| Chinese + ESA contributions
| xioxox wrote:
| China + ESA + Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial
| Physics (MPE) + Centro Nacional de Estudios Espaciales (CNES)
| contributions
| xioxox wrote:
| Pedantically, it's Einstein Probe (EP), not Einstein.
| Confusingly, in Chinese it has another name, Tianguan,
| commemorating the observation of the supernova which created
| the Crab Nebula.
| ralfhn wrote:
| For a second I was really confused about what Epstein had to do
| with x-rays
| justarandomname wrote:
| SAME, I thought there was a bit flip in the files or something.
| aussieguy1234 wrote:
| If measured the way we measure solar flares (M1, X1 etc) what
| would this one be rated as?
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