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Nia Imara is an American astrophysicist, artist, and activist. Imara's scientific work deals with galactic mass, star formation, and exoplanet detection.
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Love is the ultimate thing, I want that to be the connection between everything I do: science, art, or otherwise.
It’s frustrating for me, when people just talk about things at a superficial level and then try to solve the problem through diversity programs.
It’s the strangeness of the universe that has always been my favorite part of physics.
The link between art and science for me is my love of color and my love of light.
Imagination is a huge part of what it means to do science, and I often imagine what it would be like to be up close to these environments.
Astronomers are experts on understanding what light is. We can’t touch or sense most of the objects that we study, other than from the light that we receive from them.
We know that molecular clouds are elaborate, and that their complex geometry is tied to star formation. But the images we have of them are flat — they’re inherently two-dimensional.
I grew up in an environment where love for my people and for our culture was expressed all around me. I was raised to identify with Black people around the globe.
Astronomers are masters of light; light we can see and most of which we can’t see.
Pursue your love. Stay hopeful. You’re needed. (Responding to the question "If there was a word you could give to other young people of color who want to be scientists, what would you tell them?")
I paint mostly black people because I am black...I think it’s a cultural crisis in America, how people see themselves, and I think that should be an ambition in any art form to uplift people in some way.
One strong motivation [for painting portraits] has been wanting to portray Black people in all the beauty that I see in them...I take a lot of joy in that.
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