Adventures chasing the stars
A University of Washington astronomer offers a window into a life spent seeking to understand the cosmos.
When Emily Levesque was a little girl, she would lie in her backyard looking up at the stars.
She grew up to be an astronomy rockstar, and her new book tells some of the most adventurous, notorious stories in her field. It's called The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers.
She spoke with KUOW’s Jeannie Yandel about the observatory in the path of Mt St Helens’ eruption, the animal kingdom enemy #1 of astronomers, and answered a question from an astute young astrophysicist in training.
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Jeannie Yandel
Special Projects Editor
Jeannie Yandel is a special projects editor focusing on podcasts and broadcast shows. She created and co-hosted the KUOW podcast Battle Tactics For Your Sexist Workplace and ran and edited KUOW's podcast about local curiosity, SoundQs. She also co-created and co-hosted KUOW's YouTube interview series, Are We Going To Be OK?. Previously, she was senior producer for The Conversation and KUOW Presents, and was Executive Producer for The Record.
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