10 October 2022
The National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) recently published the first batch of large-field X-ray maps of the sky captured by the lobster-eye telescope, or the Lobster Eye Imager for Astronomy (LEIA). The LEIA, launched into space in late July, is a large-field X-ray imaging telescope. It is expected that with the "lobster eye," people will be able to efficiently observe the mysterious transient phenomena in the universe.
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