Astronomer

Watch Grace Wolf Chase, Ph.D., Astronomer at Adler Planetarium and Associate in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago, discuss her very cool career of studying planets, stars and outer space. We learn why her favorite star is “Antares” and how childhood visits to New York’s Museum of Natural History and watching “Star Trek”, sparked a lifelong passion for space research. She shares how anyone at home or in school can join the Milky Way Project online and help other scientists inspect amazingly beautiful infrared telescope images.