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Article: WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCHER RECEIVES GRANT TO BRING IMAGES OF DISTANT UNIVERSE TO INTERNET IN REAL TIME
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- October 8, 2009
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DETROIT, Oct. 7 -- Wayne State University issued the following press release:
It will provide the widest, fastest and deepest images of space ever captured and provide clues to the fate of the universe - and thanks to a Wayne State researcher, its images will be available to the public.
David Cinabro, Ph.D., professor of physics in WSU's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and resident of Dearborn, Mich., received a $258,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop the data processing portion of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, or LSST.
The LSST is a powerful, wide-field "survey" telescope that will be able to scan the entire sky in three days and will be used to create a ...