Pedantically, it's Einstein Probe (EP), not Einstein. Confusingly, in Chinese it has another name, Tianguan, commemorating the observation of the supernova which created the Crab Nebula.
NoiseBert69 29 days ago [-]
Chinese + ESA contributions
xioxox 29 days ago [-]
China + ESA + Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) + Centro Nacional de Estudios Espaciales (CNES) contributions
gammarator 29 days ago [-]
This is not very newsworthy, stellar flares are common and known to emit X-rays.
aussieguy1234 29 days ago [-]
If measured the way we measure solar flares (M1, X1 etc) what would this one be rated as?
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/