25 RISING STARS IN ASTRONOMY.

"[They] stood out … for passionately advocating for astronomers from underrepresented groups and for promoting many causes that benefit graduate students and other junior astronomers." GOPI MOHLABENG SEARCHING FOR THE INVISIBLE THE MYSTERY OF dark matter, the enigmatic substance that makes up 27 percent of the universe, has plagued astronomers for decades. Johnson offered Zucker a position in her lab, where "I ended up falling in love with astronomy research, adding astronomy and physics as a second major in college", Zucker recalls. Amaury H.M.J. Triaud, an exoplanet astronomer at the University of Birmingham in the U.K. and Martin's most-published co-author, says astronomers like Martin don't come along every day. - SARA NOVAK DAVID MARTIN CRICKETER UNO PLHHET CATCHER AUSTRALIAN ASTRONOMER DAVID MARTIN didn't spend his childhood staring through a telescope, but rather with a cricket bat in his hand. [Extracted from the article]