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X-IFU X-IFU in a nutshell Key capabilities Building the instrument History Science X-rays & Astrophysical Objects Key Themes Consortium Members Members per country Governance News News Archive In the media Education & Outreach Multimedia For educators Environment Resources Publications For members For the community Get in touch Press Jobs Contact Press Jobs Contact Home X-IFU X-IFU in a nutshell Key capabilities Building the instrument History Science X-rays & Astrophysical Objects Key Themes Consortium Members Members per country Governance News News archive In the media Education & Outreach Multimedia For educators Environment Resources Publications For members For the community Unveiling the secrets of the hot and energetic Universe Learn more Home The X-ray Integral Field Unit (X-IFU) The X-IFU is a revolutionary X-ray spectrometer, one of the two instruments of the European Space Agency’s future space telescope, Athena. It will observe with X-ray eyes, the hot and energetic Universe, a world of clusters of galaxies, black holes, and exploding stars. Read more Find out about this revolutionary instrument of ESA’s Athena mission What are the X-IFU key capabilities? Learn more about our available resources Discover our educational material What is the science behind the mission? Latest News Consortium Thomas Dauser receives the 2024 HEAD Innovation Prize from the American Astronomical Society (AAS) Congratulations to Thomas Dauser, who receives the 2024 HEAD Innovation Prize from the American Astronomical Society (AAS). Read more Science Instrument response files have been updated The X-IFU has recently undergone several changes in its design architecture. An important work ahead of the launch is to analyse, verify and understand the X-IFU capabilities when observing. That’s why the instrument response files have been updated. Read more Consortium People of X-IFU – Interview with Simon BANDLER Simon Bandler is Project manager for the U.S. contribution to the X-IFU & Research Astrophysicist at NASA. He shares with us his background in low-temperature physics detection and explains his role in the project. Read more See more news People of X-IFU "By improving spectral and angular resolutions, with such a large effective area, Athena X-IFU will represent a major step for X-ray astronomy." Jiri Svoboda Astronomer at the Astronomic Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences "When Athena X-IFU will be launched, we will see things humans never observed before." Kazuhisa Mitsuda Board member "Once Athena X-IFU will be launched, observation of the sky will be taken to a whole new level. The instrument should be able to reveal the origin of the universe!" Teresa Mineo Physicist at INAF Stay in the loop! 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