This X-ray image shows our solar system ‘breathing’
Illustration of the separation of the SWCX foreground emission from the cosmic X-ray sky, for the Western Galactic hemisphere. The stripe patterns visible in the SWCX image result from temporal variations in foreground emission combined with eROSITA’s scanning geometry. (Image credit: MPE) Astronomers have, for the first time, spotted the “breath of the solar system.”Continue Reading











