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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...
10 Ιαν 2024 · Tales of Women Pioneers in Astronomy: From Aprons to Space. Astronomy, like many fields of science, has historically been male-dominated. From the ancient stargazers of Greece to the renowned astronomers of the Renaissance, women were often relegated to the periphery and denied the opportunities to explore the cosmos.
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.
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...
15 Ιουλ 2021 · Here is a collection of the female superstars who are rightly recognised today for their extraordinary work in astronomy (more can be found here): Caroline Herschel (1750-1848): German...
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.
25 Δεκ 2016 · Star-Gazing Women Made Trail-Blazing Discoveries. Female astronomers broke the glass ceiling at the Harvard Observatory—and expanded our knowledge of the universe. The roll call of great ...
