Popular Science just named Marla Geha one of its “Brilliant 10"

The 35-year-old Geha is in hot pursuit of so-called “dwarf galaxies,” composed largely of dark matter than make them nearly invisible.

“Simulations of the Milky Way’s evolution predict that there are about 1,000 such formations,” PopSci notes. Yet “when Geha came on the scene five years ago, astronomers had found just 11 of them. . . . So far, Geha and her team have discovered 14 galaxies.”

Which is, of course, why Geha is among the “young geniuses shaking up science today” — a star in her own right..

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