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Michael Zemcov

  • April 23, 2019

    Researchers stand in front of gigantic observatory.

    RIT researchers help conduct experiment to study how the first stars and galaxies formed

    While many people flock to warm destinations for spring break, two RIT experimental cosmologists spent theirs 6,800 feet high on snow-covered Kitt Peak at the Arizona Radio Observatory. They were deploying an instrument to a 12-meter telescope for a project called the Tomographic Ionized-carbon Mapping Experiment (TIME), which aims to study the universe’s first stars and galaxies.

  • February 13, 2019

    Artists rendering of satellite in space

    RIT faculty part of NASA’s $242M SPHEREx mission

    Assistant Professor Michael Zemcov is part of a small team of scientists contributing to NASA’s new mission to explore the origins of the universe by performing the first near-infrared all-sky spectral survey.