About eROSITA


eROSITA (extended ROentgen Survey with an Imaging Telescope Array) is a wide-field X-ray telescope on-board the Russian-German "Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma" (SRG) observatory, and it was developed under the leadership of the Max-Planck Institute for extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) in Germany (DE). eROSITA is a sensitive X-ray telescope capable of delivering deep, sharp images over very large areas of the sky in the energy range ~0.2-8 keV. More details can be found at the eROSITA-DE science portal.

Publications and additional information

Latest News

Jan 31, 2024

First eROSITA sky-survey data release makes public the largest ever catalogue of high-energy cosmic sources. Read more here.

Feb 26, 2022

eROSITA suspended operations and placed in safe mode. Read more here.

June 28, 2021

eROSITA Early Release Data is made public via the eROSITA-DE page.

June 10, 2020

SRG completes first all-sky X-ray survey, which lasted from December 8, 2019 to June 10, 2020.

mid-Dec, 2019.

eROSITA completes the Calibration and Performance Verification (Cal-PV) program.