"It's very cliché, but I was never really interested in astronomy in particular until I was forced to look up at the sky in the 8th grade," says astronomer Wen-fai Fong. "I was given a project to chart the phases of the Moon, so I had to stand out on my driveway and just look up at the sky every night." Today, she is an assistant professor of physics and astronomy who leads a pioneering group of space scientists at Northwestern University in the US.
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