According to specialists from the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Russian Spektr-RG observatory, launched into orbit this summer, recorded a thermonuclear explosion on a neutron star in the center of the Galaxy.
The source said that in August-September, observations of two neutron stars located close to each other were carried out. During the observation process, a thermonuclear explosion was recorded on one of the neural stars.
According to official data, the Spektr-RG observatory will reach the Lagrange point L2 of the Earth-Sun system, which will become operational for it, on October 21 this year. Having reached the operating point, which is located at a distance of 1,5 million km from the Earth, the observatory will begin surveying the celestial sphere. It is expected that over the four years of operation, Spektr-RG will make eight complete surveys of the celestial sphere. After this, the observatory will be used to conduct point observations of various objects of the Universe in accordance with applications received from the world scientific community. According to available data, about 2,5 years will be allocated for this work.
Let us recall that the space observatory “Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma” is a Russian-German project, within the framework of which an observatory was created that makes it possible to explore the Universe in the X-ray range. Ultimately, with the help of the Spektr-RG observatory, scientists plan to build a map of the visible part of the Universe, on which all galaxy clusters will be marked. The observatory design includes two telescopes, one of which was developed by domestic scientists, and the second was created by German colleagues.
Source: 3dnews.ru