Astronomer Akira Endo, working from TU Delft in collaboration with SRON, is developing a method to create a three-dimensional map of the early universe. Due to the expansion of the Universe, the light from the earliest galaxies reaches our telescopes as far-infrared radiation. Therefore Endo is developing a chip containing eighty small far-infrared spectrometers. Because each pixel can distinguish between colors, it can determine whether galaxies are farther or closer depending on how much their light is redshifted. Endo has now received an NWO Vici grant to conduct this research.
