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10 Ιαν 2024 · Before 1900, women interested in studying the stars needed a male relative (father, brother, or husband) to gain access. Even well into the 20th century, despite their significant intellectual abilities, women astronomers faced barriers preventing them from seizing opportunities.
8 Μαρ 2022 · From discovering planets to following comets, women all over the world play a crucial role in astronomy. While it's hard to pick the definitive list of women who have contributed to our...
25 Δεκ 2016 · The roll call of great astronomers, from Copernicus to Hubble, has been dominated by men. But at the end of the 19th century, a group of women working at the Harvard College Observatory made some...
5 Ιαν 2022 · The first astronomical female was Urania, the Greek muse of astronomy. She was important in mythology as the daughter of Zeus, whose realm was the sky. Besides this divine heritage, Urania came to be portrayed as making measurements on a globe, symbolizing women doing astronomical science.
13 Δεκ 2023 · After more than half a century during which women astronomers were limited almost entirely to research assistant positions at a small handful of observatories or faculty positions at women’s colleges, a few women found themselves in the right places at the right times to do important work.
25 Απρ 2019 · In the 18th century brother-and-sister team William and Caroline Herschel built their own telescopes and used them to discover comets and the planet Uranus. William Herschel went on to develop the idea of “island universes,” theorizing that our own Milky Way was just one “island” among many.
21 Ιουλ 2017 · In 19th-century America, you might expect that most women were shut out of the sciences—including astronomy. But it wasn’t quite that simple. By many accounts, some educated girls in the early...
