Einstein Probe detects an X-ray flare from nearby star

4 comments

• martinpw 2 hours 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/
• gammarator 3 hours ago
  This is not very newsworthy, stellar flares are common and known to emit X-rays.
• wglb 6 hours ago
  Article in https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16679
• ralfhn 23 minutes ago
  For a second I was really confused about what Epstein had to do with x-rays