[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 \\n
- 01:22 How hard it is to observe the Milky Way \\n
- 05:28 Mindset shift in Astronomy \\n
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- 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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