User blog comment:Rai-Knightshade/Name Suggestions/@comment-32503172-20170504201456/@comment-26897541-20170505124732

If there's one benefit to college science, its that you have the opportunity for getting really cool teachers. My teacher also works for Fermilabs as a particle-focused astrophysicist (he uses detectors to find particles coming in from outer space that can interfere with scientific experimental data), and he can officially change star names in the international database. So, he gave everyone in my class (a physical science class) as well as everyone in his astronomy classes a star to do research on and name. Then this summer he'll go up to Fermi and input these new names into the database!

He does some other stuff too for Fermi, like visiting different countries to set up educational science equipment in schools and working with telescopes and sky surveys. Mostly though he works with particles, aka the itty bitty bits that make up atoms and stuff.