# \[Interview\] How to Find Your Way Home in Space

An episode of [Universe Today Podcast](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/794058155), 16 Jul 2025, 46 min.

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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 frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Support Universe Today Podcast

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