Einstein Probe, however, is the first to employ lobster-eye optics in a space telescope. Its Wide-field X-ray Telescope (WXT) borrows from the design of a lobster's eye, with hundreds of thousands ...

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A diagram explains the instruments and mission of the Einstein probe. ... the Wide-field X-ray Telescope ... perceiving light via reflection rather than refraction.