The eROSITA X-ray Telescope has been scanning the sky for over 182 days and has discovered twice the number of known X-ray sources uncovered over the past 60 years. A galaxy hunting telescope has completed its first full sweep of the hot, energetic universe, resulting in a stunning map (pictured) with more than one million cosmic objects. And now the technology has completed its deepest view of the X-ray sky. The eROSITA X-ray Telescope has been scanning the sky for more than 182 days and has discovered twice the number of known X-ray sources uncovered over the past 60 years. We are already sampling a cosmological volume of the hot universe much larger than has been possible before.

Source: Daily Mail June 19, 2020 20:09 UTC