Making Her Story: Priya Natarajan

Connecticut Public Radio | By Lucy Nalpathanchil

Published August 29, 2017 at 9:00 AM EDT

Priya Natarajan has what some might call an affinity for the impalpable. Black holes. Galaxies. The intricacies of the universe.

This hour, the Yale-based astrophysicist talks about the experiences that triggered her curiosity and zeal for "exotica." It's the latest in WNPR's "Making Her Story" series, recorded live at the Warner Theatre in Torrington, Connecticut.

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Priya Natarajan - Professor in the Departments of Astronomy and Physics at Yale Universityand author of Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos

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Catie Talarski contributed to this show.

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