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Radio Somerset,9 mins

Bath professor in book about women astronomers

Simon Parkin

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The University of Bath's Carole Mundell tells her story in 'The Sky Is for Everyone: Stories of Women Astronomers in Their Own Words'. She talks to Simon Parkin about becoming interested in astronomy and what a Professor of Extragalactic Astronomy does. Carole tells Simon she gets to "catch the death throes of massive stars and the birth cries of massive new black holes being formed." Image: University of Bath

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