Report by Rich Barlow. Video by Devin Hahn and Joe Chan.

BU Today speaks to College of Arts and Sciences astronomer Merav Opher about her involvement in NASA’s Voyager mission to explore the region beyond our solar system.

The daughter of an astrophysicist, Opher, in a fit of youthful rebellion, once flirted with becoming a film director instead of a scientist. She changed course after a college professor “showed me how physics can be poetic, and this hooked me. I realized that physics can be as exciting as movies and opera!”

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