{"id":78123,"date":"2018-04-29T20:03:07","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T03:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/meet-the-woman-who-wants-to-solve-the-universes-mysteries"},"modified":"2018-04-29T20:03:07","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T03:03:07","slug":"meet-the-woman-who-wants-to-solve-the-universes-mysteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/meet-the-woman-who-wants-to-solve-the-universes-mysteries","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Woman Who Wants to Solve the Universe\u2019s Mysteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/meet-the-woman-who-wants-to-solve-the-universes-mysteries.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last year Kollmeier was named director of the fifth version of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdss.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sloan Digital Sky Survey<\/a>, a project that aims to map the universe. The survey, which launches in 2020, will employ telescopes in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres to scan the entire sky. The telescopes will obtain spectra of bright objects in the sky, breaking up that light into component parts. \u201cThat\u2019s where the astrophysics is,\u201d says Kollmeier. \u201cThat tells you all the chemical abundances. That tells you all the transitions in the objects.\u201d And that\u2019s where she\u2019ll begin to find answers to her questions: How do supermassive black holes grow? Can stars be used as clocks that tell us when and how a galaxy was formed?<\/p>\n<p>Kollmeier didn\u2019t get into astronomy by looking up at the stars. She meant to be a lawyer until she went to what she calls \u201cnerd camp\u201d and learned how to write code to classify stars. \u201cThe idea that you could interrogate the universe in this way \u2026 I felt like an explorer.\u201d Now she\u2019s going further than she once thought possible.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/magazine\/2018\/05\/genius-juna-kollmeier-map-universe-space\/\">https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/magazine\/2018\/05\/genius-j...rse-space\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year Kollmeier was named director of the fifth version of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a project that aims to map the universe. The survey, which launches in 2020, will employ telescopes in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres to scan the entire sky. The telescopes will obtain spectra of bright objects in the sky, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}