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World’s brightest X-ray with beams surpassing Sun’s glow to be turned on by China

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China is finalizing construction on what will be the world’s brightest X-ray light source.

The High Energy Photon Source ( HEPS ) is expected to begin operations later this year .

The advanced facility will power research across materials science, biomedicine, and physics.

HEPS is designed to generate beams a trillion times brighter than the surface of the sun.