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Life on Other Planets - A Memoir of Finding My Place in the Universe (Hardcover)
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Life on Other Planets - A Memoir of Finding My Place in the Universe (Hardcover)
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List price R689
Loot Price R562
Discovery Miles 5 620
You Save R127 (18%)
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As a child, Aomawa Shields was always bumping into things, her neck
craned up at the sky, dreaming of becoming an astronaut. A year
into an astrophysics PhD program, plagued by self-doubt and
discouraged by a white male professor who suggested that she - a
young Black woman who also loved fashion, makeup, and the arts -
didn't belong, she left astronomy and pursued acting professionally
for a decade, before a day job working for NASA's Spitzer Space
Telescope drew her back to the stars. She was the oldest and the
only Black student in her PhD cohort. This time, no professor, and
no voice in her own head, would stop her. Now an astronomer and
astrobiologist at the top of her field, Dr Shields studies the
universe outside our solar system, researching and uncovering the
planets circling distant stars with just the right conditions that
could support life. But it's been a road as winding and complex as
the physics she has mastered. Life on Other Planets is a journey of
discovery on this world and on others, a story of creating a life
that makes space for joy, love and wonder while being driven by one
of our biggest questions: is anybody else out there? It is about
the possibility of living between multiple worlds and not choosing
- but instead charting a new path entirely.
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