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Our deepest view of the X-ray sky
19.06.2020The eROSITA telescope has provided a new, sharp view of hot and energetic processes across the Universe
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Doubts about basic assumption for the Universe
08.04.2020Study by the Universities of Bonn and Harvard questions a fundamental principle of cosmology
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With the start of the SRG all-sky survey, eROSITA promises most accurate maps of the X-ray sky ever
11.12.2019Launched from Baikonur on July 13th 2019 to the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point (L2), the Russian-German SRG mission has now started its main task. On December 8th, after an extensive program of commissioning, calibration and performance verification of its two X-ray telescopes (ART-XC and eROSITA), the satellite has begun observing the sky in continuous scanning mode.
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Revealing the Beauty of the Hidden Universe: eROSITA sees first light
22.10.2019The scientific performance demonstrated in the first weeks of operations of the eROSITA X-ray telescope promises a breakthrough in our understanding of the energetic Universe.
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Successful launch for eROSITA X-ray telescope
13.07.2019Today at 14:31 (on 13 July 2019), the Russian-German Spektrum-Roentgen-Gamma (SRG) space mission successfully lifted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome. On-board is the eROSITA X-ray telescope, which was developed and built by a consortium of German institutes supported by Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) and led by the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE). Astronomers from the University of Bonn are involved in the scientific preparation and exploitation. 1.5 million kilometres from Earth, eROSITA will perform a deep survey of the entire X-ray sky over the next four years, providing the first ever deep imaging survey of the sky at soft and hard X-rays.
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