German X-Ray Telescope Takes First Images of Universe. Here They Are!

[Judi Lynn]

By Chelsea Gohd 13 hours ago



This eROSITA image shows the Large Magellanic Cloud, our galactic neighbor. The image was
created with exposures from all seven of the telescope's mirror modules; the pictures were
taken between Oct. 18 and 19.(Image: © F. Haberl, M. Freyberg and C. Maitra; MPE/IKI)


The first images from a dark-energy-hunting telescope have been revealed, and they're spectacular.

On Oct. 22, 2019, the inaugural images from the German X-ray telescope eROSITA were presented to the public at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) in Bavaria, Germany. These "first light" images are a combination of pictures from all seven of the telescope's Wolter-1 mirror modules, which have been scanning the sky with custom CCD cameras.



This image from eROSITA shows A3391/3395, two interacting galaxy clusters that are 800 million
light-years from Earth. This image was created with exposures from all seven of the telescope's
mirror modules; the images were taken between Oct. 17 TKTK

(Image credit: T. Reiprich (University of Bonn), M. Ramos-Ceja (MPE), F. Pacaud (University of
Bonn), D. Eckert (University of Geneva), J. Sanders (MPE), N. Ota (University of Bonn), E. Bulbul
(MPE), V. Ghirardini (MPE), MPE/IKI)

The German space agency (DLR)'s eROSITA telescope, which has been making observations since Oct. 13, has taken combined X-ray images of pieces of the night sky. Those include pictures of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and A3391/3395, an interacting pair of galaxy clusters located about 800 million light-years from Earth.

"These first images from our telescope show the true beauty of the hidden universe," Peter Predehl, principal investigator of eROSITA, said in a statement. "To meet our science goals, we needed enough sensitivity to detect the most-distant clusters of galaxies in the universe over the whole sky and resolve them spatially. These first light images show that we can do exactly that, but we can go a lot further."

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[JoeOtterbein]

1. COOL!

[lastlib]

2. Wonderful shots!

Another eye into the heavens!

"Vast vision must improve our sight,
And perhaps we'll see an end
to our home's endless blight..."
--Moody Blues, "Higher And Higher"

[tblue37]

3. K&R. nt

[keithbvadu2]

4. I see some blobs and blurs.

I see some blobs and blurs.

I'm impressed with the great magnitudes of distance and timelines but it's beyond my ken to figure it all out.

Let the smart folks tell us what's going on.

And change their theories later.

[Me.]

5. The First One Makes Me Think Of A Heart