The eROSITA telescope was launched on the Spektrum-RG satellite in July 2019.
That December, it began collecting data for the all-sky survey.
The work terminated in June 2020 and astronomers were thrilled with the quantity and quality of what it recorded.
In these two images, a special image processing algorithm is used to separate extended features (left) from point sources (right).(Photo: © MPE, J. Sanders for the eROSITA consortium)
Weve detected more sources in six months than the big flagship missionsXMM-NewtonandChandrahave done in nearly 25 years of operation.
But the papers published by the team will speak for themselves.
(Photo: McCall al.
This image shows half of the X-ray sky projected onto a circle (so-called Zenit Equal Area projection), with the center of the Milky Way on the left and the galactic plane running horizontally. (Photo: © MPE, J. Sanders for the eROSITA consortium)
(2024))
(eROSITA X-ray image with the newly discovered filament between two galaxy clusters.)
Photo: Dietl et al.
(2024)
Learn more about eROSITA’s mission to map the entire sky.
This X-ray image shows the full extent of the Virgo Cluster, which is the closest galaxy cluster (collection of galaxies) to us. (Photo: McCall al. (2024))
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(eROSITA X-ray image with the newly discovered filament between two galaxy clusters.) Photo: Dietl et al. (2024)
