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It’s the strangeness of the universe that has always been my favorite part of physics.

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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