{"id":19188,"date":"2024-01-11T10:00:47","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T04:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=19188"},"modified":"2025-04-05T15:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T10:21:08","slug":"ep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ep\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Einstein Probe (EP)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Einstein Probe (EP)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The EP is a\u00a0mission of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) dedicated to\u00a0time-domain high-energy astrophysics.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0primary scientific goal of the EP is\u00a0to explore the\u00a0transient and variable X-ray sky,\u00a0capturing powerful bursts of high-energy light emanating from objects such as merging neutron stars and black holes.<\/li>\n<li>It was successfully\u00a0launched on January 9, 2024, from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China with a &#8220;Long March-2C&#8221; rocket.<\/li>\n<li>It is equipped with\u00a0state-of-the-art X-ray mirrors and detectors.<\/li>\n<li>Unlike conventional X-ray telescopes, Einstein Probe\u2019s unique design allows it to monitor almost a tenth of the sky simultaneously, discovering new sources as they light up in X-rays and enabling in-depth studies of known and new celestial phenomena over extended periods.<\/li>\n<li>It will\u00a0also detect light from gamma-ray bursts, supernovae, flares from other stars, and events within the Solar System, such as emissions from comets.<\/li>\n<li>The satellite has a\u00a0weight of\u00a0\uff5e1450 kg and an average power of\u00a0\uff5e1212 W in total.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are neutron stars?\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>Neutron stars are formed when a massive star runs out of fuel and collapses. The very central region of the star \u2013 the core \u2013 collapses, crushing together every proton and electron into a neutron.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deccanherald.com\/science\/space\/china-launches-new-satellite-einstein-probe-shaped-like-a-lotus-to-observe-violent-cosmic-phenomena-2841452\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>China launches new satellite &#8216;Einstein Probe&#8217; shaped like a lotus to observe violent cosmic phenomena<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Einstein Probe is a mission of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) dedicated to time-domain high-energy astrophysics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19189,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}