Life on Other PlanetsAs a child, Aomawa Shields' first great love was the sky. She would bump into things on the ground because her neck was always craned upward, and she longed to become an astronaut. Determined to make her dream a reality, Aomawa applied for and attended an elite high school with an astronomy observatory, graduated with a degree in astrophysics from MIT, and began studying for a PhD. But one year into her studies, a white male professor recommended that