Grace Wolf Chase
Astronomer
Playlists
All Videos (27)
- What I Do
- My Research on Solar Winds
- Adler Planetarium and the University of Chicago
- Great Part
- How Astronomy Benefits Humanity
- Challenges
- Education
- Antares: My Favorite Star
- Favorite Subjects
- Telescopes
- The Kepler Mission Telescope
- Connecting to Remote Telescopes
- Goals
- Helpful Teachers
- Heroes
- Skills From Childhood
- The Milky Way Project
- Citizen Science
- How Stars Are Formed
- How to Identify Stars
- Astrobiology
- Extremophiles
- Family Support
- Staying Motivated
- Overcoming Obstacles
- Did it Anyway
- Advice
Bio
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.
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