# Earth Has Been Glowing This Whole Time. Now We Finally Looked.

- slug: earth-has-been-glowing-this-whole-time-now-we-finally-looked
- date: 2026-04-02
- category: Space & Aerospace

Scientists spotted this X-ray glow in 1996. It took 30 years and a novel lobster-eye telescope to build the spacecraft that could finally capture it.

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