The first telescope equipped with crab eye technology will be built by China and sent into space

China plans to launch the so-called Einstein telescope to search for powerful X-ray emissions from celestial bodies.

According to Tekna Technology News Service, the Chinese Academy of Sciences will send the Einstein Probe spacecraft after several months with the aim of observing X-rays in space. Probably, the time to send this telescope into space will be in January 2024. The new generation instruments of this telescope with high sensitivity and wide field of view can be used to observe X-rays in space.

Chinese researchers were inspired by the crab's eye in developing this probe. The eye of this animal is such that it allows light to enter it from all directions and then be reflected in the channels. Finally, the incoming light will be focused on the retina in a unique way. This ability allows the crab to have a wide field of vision and see things around it in the ocean completely.

This probe, with its special tools, can similarly track and observe X-rays in a wide field through its tools, including the X-ray telescope. This telescope is designed like the eyes of a crab and uses microporous lenses. This telescope is supposed to explore and monitor the night sky in three orbits around the Earth. Each trip of this probe takes about 96 minutes. The mission related to the Einstein probe did not belong only to China, and the European Space Agency and the Max Planck Institute in Germany also cooperated in it.