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This is the sky we would see if we had X-ray vision.
Over the course of 182 days, eROSITA compiled this image, showing more than one million objects, which is nearly double the amount of X-ray sources previously known to scientists.
eROSITA is the extended Roentgen Survey with an Imaging Telescope Array. Its target in this mission was finding supermassive black holes gorging on gas, and many of the new sources found are active galactic nuclei which mark the growth of black holes over cosmic time.
These galaxy clusters will be tracked by astronomers to gain more understanding of the growth of cosmic structures.
One of the most prominent structures in the X-ray sky is this supernova remnant, named Vela.
Our neighboring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud, was the first image produced by eROSITA in October 2019.
The telescope was launched in July 2019. It was developed by a group of German institutions led by the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics.
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