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'''XEUS''' is the [[X-ray]] Evolving [[Universe]] [[Spectroscopy]] space observatory that is being developed by the [[European Space Agency]] as a successor to the successful [[XMM-Newton]] [[X-ray]] [[satellite]] [[telescope]]. It consists of a mirror spacecraft that carries a large X-ray telescope, with a mirror area of about 5 m² and an imaging resolution better than 5"″ for X-ray radiation with an energy of 1 keV. A detector spacecraft will fly in formation with the telescope at a distance of approximately 35 m, in the focus of the telescope. The detectors will include a wide-field X-ray imager with an energy resolution of 150 eV at 6 keV, as well as a cryogenic narrow-field imager with an energy resolution of 2 eV at 1 keV.