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[Interview] How to Find Your Way Home in Space
Manage episode 494824220 series 2513416
If you were dropped in a random place in space, how would you find your way home? New Horizons tackled this problem with a first interstellar navigation demonstration. Using parallax in real time to determine its position in space. How did they pull it off and what other interesting things can spacecraft do? Finding out in this interview.
😍 [Interview+] Bonus Part. No YT ads.
https://www.patreon.com/universetoday
🟣 Guest: Dr Tod Lauer
https://staff.noirlab.edu/tod.lauer/
📜 A Demonstration of Interstellar Navigation Using New Horizons
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.21666
00:00 Intro
01:48 Finding your way home from a random place in the galaxy
05:58 Test with New Horizons
19:19 Science with New Horizons after its main mission
26:02 The era of JWST
34:49 The Question to ask
37:58 Current obsessions
43:07 Final thoughts
📺 VIDEO VERSION
https://youtu.be/YcHchdHwBpw
📰 GUIDE TO SPACE Newsletter
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Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/
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📩 CONTACT FRASER
[email protected]
⚖️ LICENSE
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
1390 episodes
Manage episode 494824220 series 2513416
If you were dropped in a random place in space, how would you find your way home? New Horizons tackled this problem with a first interstellar navigation demonstration. Using parallax in real time to determine its position in space. How did they pull it off and what other interesting things can spacecraft do? Finding out in this interview.
😍 [Interview+] Bonus Part. No YT ads.
https://www.patreon.com/universetoday
🟣 Guest: Dr Tod Lauer
https://staff.noirlab.edu/tod.lauer/
📜 A Demonstration of Interstellar Navigation Using New Horizons
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.21666
00:00 Intro
01:48 Finding your way home from a random place in the galaxy
05:58 Test with New Horizons
19:19 Science with New Horizons after its main mission
26:02 The era of JWST
34:49 The Question to ask
37:58 Current obsessions
43:07 Final thoughts
📺 VIDEO VERSION
https://youtu.be/YcHchdHwBpw
📰 GUIDE TO SPACE Newsletter
No ads. Subscribe for FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter
🎧 PODCASTS
Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/
Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/
📩 CONTACT FRASER
[email protected]
⚖️ LICENSE
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
1390 episodes
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