Turning the Sun Into a Giant Telescope with Dr. Slava Turyshev
Channel: Fraser Cain
Category: Science & Technology
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Description: My guest today is Dr. Slava Turyshev, a physicist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He helped to solve the Pioneer Anomaly, and is developing a mission that could use the Sun's gravity as a natural lens to focus the light from distant objects. science.jpl.nasa.gov/people/Turyshev Start 00:00:00 What are gravitational lenses? 00:02:33 How big would traditional telescopes have to be? 00:04:47 How would a solar gravitational lens work? 00:11:28 How do you align the lens? 00:26:41 Could we send multiple missions? 00:28:16 Could we use matural gravitational lenses? 00:35:48 What is the status of the research? 00:41:54 How would the mission work? 00:45:47 What are the technical risks? 00:52:23 Building long-term missions 00:56:42 π OUR WEBSITE: ββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββ universetoday.com π PODCAST LINKS: ββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββ RSS: universetoday.com/audio iTunes: universetoday.com/itunes Spotify: universetoday.com/spotify π EMAIL NEWSLETTER: ββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββ Read by 50,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: universetoday.com/newsletter π OTHER PODCASTS: ββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββ Weekly Space Hangout: Weekly news roundup with Fraser, special guests, and other space journalists. RSS: universetoday.com/feed/wshaudio iTunes: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weekly-space-hangout-audio/id836926769 YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg Astronomy Cast: Award-winning, long-running deep dive into space and astronomy with Fraser and Dr. Pamela Gay. RSS: astronomycast.libsyn.com/rss iTunes: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/astronomy-cast/id191636169?mt=2 YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCUHI67dh9jEO2rvK--MdCSg π JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: ββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββ Patreon: patreon.com/universetoday π OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA: ββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββ Twitter: twitter.com/fcain Twitter: twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: instagram.com/universetoday Twitch: twitch.tv/fcain π CONTACT FRASER: ββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββ Email: frasercain@gmail.com π LICENSE: ββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.
