HENRIETTA SWAN LEAVITT
She worked with Edwin Hubble at Harvard for 30 cents an hour and shaped the view of universe as we know it, yet never won a Nobel PrizeHenrietta Swan Leavitt, a Harvard Observatory 'human computer,' revolutionized astronomy in the early 20th century. Despite facing gender b...
New component of Milky Way discoveredAstronomers have discovered a previously unknown component of the Milky Way: a disc of young stars buried behind thick dust clouds in the c...
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