[NIAC 2023] Infrared Earth-like Planet Hunter Telescope
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 \n
- 01:22 How hard it is to observe the Milky Way \n
- 05:28 Mindset shift in Astronomy \n
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- 16:00 Fancy Physics \n
- 22:50 Targets for the telescope \n
- 39:10 Next steps \n
- 42:38 Milky Way @ home \n
- 47:35 Outro \n
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