Everyone’s captivated by astronomy, by the stars, what’s ou… - Nia Imara

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Everyone’s captivated by astronomy, by the stars, what’s out there in the universe...And so I made a conscious choice a long time ago that I wanted to share my work with the community, with Black folks and other people of color, especially.

Nia Imara

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Nia Imara is an American astrophysicist, artist, and activist. Imara's scientific work deals with galactic mass, star formation, and exoplanet detection. Imara was the first African-American woman to earn a PhD in astrophysics at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Astronomers are masters of light; light we can see and most of which we can’t see.

We can never make assumptions about the entire universe based on what’s happening in our own backyard...we don’t want to have a theory of star formation just for the Milky Way — we want a universal theory.

It’s frustrating for me, when people just talk about things at a superficial level and then try to solve the problem through diversity programs.

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