We know the stars sparkle at night, but what's happening inside those balls of gas?

Connie Arts uses observations and complex math to answer this question.

She shares the 2022 Cavley Prize in Astrophysics with Yurgen, Christians, and Delzgo and Roger

Ulrich for their work studying the pulsations of stars to learn more about their inner

workings.

The Pacific American custom media, in partnership with the Cavley Prize, spoke with Connie

to learn more about her contribution to this work.

Connie Arts has spent her life watching the sky.

People tell me I still do that today.

When I exit a house or a building, I automatically look up.

It all started when she was a young girl.

Her family lived on a remote sandy road with no street lights, so she had a great view

of the stars.

So looking up was natural to me as a child, and I was just curious what happens inside

these tiny little dots in the sky.

She dreamed of being an astronomer.

But you know, I come from a workers family, so I had no connection to any cultural life

or higher education, let's say.

Connie assumed that her dream was out of reach, but all of that changed after a conversation

with the head of her primary school.

He noticed that she was excelling at math.

And he really asked, what do you want to become later?

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