[NIAC 2023] Infrared Earth-like Planet Hunter Telescope

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In this interview, I'm talking with Heidi Newberg. Her team won a NIAC grant that will investigate building a telescope that will be hunting for Earth-like worlds. The project is called DICER, which stands for Diffractive Interfero Coronagraph Exoplanet Resolver.

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  • 00:00 Intro

  • 01:22 How hard it is to observe the Milky Way

  • 05:28 Mindset shift in Astronomy

  • 07:56 NIAC idea: Telescope Design

  • 16:00 Fancy Physics

  • 22:50 Targets for the telescope

  • 39:10 Next steps

  • 42:38 Milky Way @ home

  • 47:35 Outro

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In this interview, I'm talking with Heidi Newberg. Her team won a NIAC grant that will investigate building a telescope that will be hunting for Earth-like worlds. The project is called DICER, which stands for Diffractive Interfero Coronagraph Exoplanet Resolver.

🦄 Support us on Patreon:

https://patreon.com/universetoday

🌌 Milky Way @ home:

https://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/

👉 More about the NIAC project:

https://www.universetoday.com/160089/if-an-earthlike-planet-is-within-30-light-years-this-space-telescope-will-find-it/

  • 00:00 Intro

  • 01:22 How hard it is to observe the Milky Way

  • 05:28 Mindset shift in Astronomy

  • 07:56 NIAC idea: Telescope Design

  • 16:00 Fancy Physics

  • 22:50 Targets for the telescope

  • 39:10 Next steps

  • 42:38 Milky Way @ home

  • 47:35 Outro

📺 VIDEO VERSION

https://youtu.be/VLsWeMYh7fQ

📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER

Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads.

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2023-03-16 48 min
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