Geza Gyuk

Director of Astronomy, Adler Planetarium

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Director of Astronomy at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, Illinois

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Powerful telescopes on Earth and in orbit are producing thousands of images of stars and galaxies, so many there aren’t enough professional astronomers to interpret them all.

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