Professor Aomawa Shields shares her nontraditional career path to becoming an Astronomer.
An Unexpected Path to Becoming an Astronomer
She set out to study space––and then spent over a decade acting in Hollywood. Today, as an exoplanet astronomer at the University of California, Irvine, Aomawa Shields is exploring whether life could exist on faraway worlds."Black Hole Apocalypse" is streaming online now at: https://to.pbs.org/2EuSENx
Posted by NOVA l PBS on Wednesday, September 5, 2018
“Set out to study space––and then spent over a decade acting in Hollywood. Today, as an exoplanet astronomer at the University of California, Irvine, Aomawa Shields is exploring whether life could exist on faraway worlds.”