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Homing in on the X-ray sky with eROSITA’s second data release

An X-ray image of galaxy cluster A3266
An X-ray image of galaxy cluster A3266 – The massive galaxy cluster A3266 is shining brightly in the X-ray light and is connected to a nearby group of galaxies by a gaseous filament.© Jakob Dietl/Uni Bonn/eROSITA-DE

The German eROSITA consortium (eROSITA-DE), which includes the University of Bonn and is led by the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE), has released its second major public data set, the “eROSITA Data Release 2” (DR2).

Built from the first three all-sky surveys conducted by the eROSITA telescope aboard the Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma (SRG) mission, DR2 provides the most sensitive and comprehensive catalog of the X-ray sky currently available to the public...

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