"Einstein's Telescope and Lobster-Eye Mission: Space-bound Innovations"

The Chinese Academy of Sciences is set to launch the Einstein Probe, an X-ray telescope named after Albert Einstein, next month. Built in collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, the probe will use lobster-eye optics to observe 3,600 square degrees of the sky in a single shot. Over its three-year mission, the Einstein Probe aims to study black holes, gravitational waves, supernovas, and other cosmic phenomena, emitting alert signals to other telescopes to collect data on fleeting events.