Infrared Earth-like Planet Hunter Telescope [NIAC 2023]

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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