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in recognition of african-american

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history month NASA salutes the

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contributions of african-americans to

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the cause of space exploration I think a

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lot of young people believe that the

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only way to be successful in this world

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is to go through school to get those

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grades to go out and apply for some high

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paying job and do your nine to five if

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you're a person that's not satisfied

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with that then science is where you you

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might want to consider being my job with

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NASA is to conduct research into the

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discovery and characterization of

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planets around other stars I use

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telescopes to observe the universe our

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recent discovery is very exciting it's

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the discovery of a very compact system

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of very small planets around a small red

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dwarf star so this is indicating to us

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that the most likely place to find a

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truly earth-like habitable planet might

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be around a tiny little faint red dwarf

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star and they're everywhere on the sky

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this is what helps me wake up in the

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morning this is what keeps me going

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through my very busy days is our

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discoveries like this where there was no

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answer in the back of the book I lacked

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a lot of confidence when I first started

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off studying astronomy I encountered

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questions that nobody on earth knew the

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answer to and I was actually having to

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devise the method of reaching the answer

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it's okay to be stuck as a matter of

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fact to be an astronomer to be a really

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successful scientist uses should spend

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the majority of your time stuck because

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that means you're doing something

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interesting this is actually a really

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great job to understand the universe and