Jackie Faherty knew she wanted to be an astronomer after she saw Contact, the 1997 movie based on the novel by the uber-famous astronomer Carl Sagan.I walked into the theater my freshman year at Notre Dame one person, and walked out a different person, she said.These days, as a senior scientist at the American Museum of Natural History, she specializes in brown dwarfs, which defy definition and exist in between stars and planets, she explained, and can help in studying star formation.
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