[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
• 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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