Summary: <p>Athena Brensberger, aka @AstroAthens, is a model and science communicator. She embarked on her modelling career while she was a researcher at the Hayden Planetarium studying proto-planetary disks, the embryos of solar systems around other stars.</p> <p>As her modelling career advances, she also uses her platform to communicate one of her passions: astronomy. Her Instagram account has hundreds of thousands of followers and her YouTube channel garners thousands of views. In this episode Dustin and Tony talk with Athena about everything from modelling, astrophysicists in fashion and how she approaches communicating to her audience, many of whom may not be aware of how great space is!</p> --- Support this podcast: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/spacejunk/support" rel="payment">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/spacejunk/support</a>
