Award-winning astronomer on her work that led to a major advance in the understanding of the history of our planetary system.
Jane is one of the most notable Vietnamese American astronomers of our time. With her PhD advisor at MIT, she discovered the Kuiper Belt, vastly increasing the number of known objects in the solar system and winning the Kavli price in 2012. Jane is an alum of Stanford University, UCLA and MIT, and was a professor at Harvard University. We talk to Jane about her experience of becoming a cosmic explorer.