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 Lauerhttps://staff.noirlab.edu/tod.lauer/📜 A Demonstration of Interstellar Navigation Using New Horizonshttps://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.21666📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/YcHchdHwBpw📰 GUIDE TO SPACE Newsletter No ads. Subscribe for FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter🎧 PODCASTSUniverse Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/📩 CONTACT FRASERfrasercain@gmail.com⚖️ LICENSECreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast