NASA funding URI engineering professor to develop next-gen telescope technology

Smiling scientist at his lab microscope.

Photo: Sungho Kim, assistant professor of electrical, computer and biomedical engineering, in his lab at the Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering. Photos: Nora Lewis $1.2 million NASA grant supporting development of miniature semiconductors at URI University of Rhode Island Professor Sungho Kim is developing technology that could be part of NASA’s next-generation telescope that will…

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Unfolding the universe… Webb Space Telescope show begins

An image of a cluster of galaxies.

Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI At 10:30am TODAY, images from the Webb Telescope will be released – NASA released a teaser with the image at the top of this story – the first ever seen so deep into the universe. The light is refracting from 13 billion years ago. Released one by one, the…

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The little helicopter that could – and it did

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NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter achieves powered, controlled flight for the first time on another planet, hovering for several seconds before touching back down on April 19, 2021. The image was taken by the left Navigation Camera, or Navcam, aboard the agency’s Perseverance Mars rover from a distance of 210 feet (64 meters). The Ingenuity Mars…

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