SMRTR Science & EngineeringOct 19, 2025Interesting Engineering

Chinese scientists develop fingernail-sized chip that can map 5,600 stars in seconds

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Chinese researchers at Tsinghua University created a fingernail-sized optical chip called Yuheng that analyzes starlight with 100 times sharper resolution than conventional cameras, capturing 88 frames per second. The breakthrough chip mapped 5,600 stars in a single snapshot, potentially reducing Milky Way mapping from millennia to under a decade.

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