The telescope has lobster eyes

The Lobster All-Sky X-ray Observatory is under development, with wide viewing capabilities such as lobster. ( Photo: BBC )

Lobster has become the idea of a new type of European radiological telescope. This observation deck is designed to have an extremely wide viewing field - just like when lobsters use their eyes.

Lobsters have this capability by using a large network of tiny channels that focus light by reflecting, not refraining from passing through the lens of the human eye.

British researchers are now constructing a similar structure for microscopes to scan the sky, in search of fierce and sudden phenomena, such as black hole swallowing stars.

The manufacture of the telescope took the idea from the visual system of lobster. ( Photo: BBC )

' Astronomy requires you to observe the right place at the right time, and that means either you must be very lucky, or have to look at the same place at the same time. Our equipment will use all-round observation , "said Dr Nigel Bannister of the University of Leicester.

The X-ray Observatory named Lobster All-Sky is under development. It consists of 6 modules attached to each other, combining the 180 degree vision range. If the telescope is sent flying around the Earth's orbit, it will build a complete picture of the sky.

Lobster will act as a warning system. When seeing an attractive target, it will alert the Earth immediately, calling for other telescopes to operate at different wavelengths to track the target.

The idea of applying lobster eye structure to the X-ray telescope was first proposed in the 1970s, but it took 30 years to complete the related optical instruments.

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