EnHeduanna : chief astronomer, priestess of the moon, goddess of the city -- Hypatia of Alexandria : astronomer, engineer, physicist, inventor -- Hildegard of Bingen : heard the music of the spheres -- Caroline Herschel : she and her brother revolutionized the study of astronomy -- Maria Mitchell : the most famous American astronomer of her time -- Williamina Stevens Fleming : founding mother of the Harvard women astronomers -- Annie Jump Cannon : built a star catalog of more than 350,000 stars -- Henrietta Swan Leavitt : discovered a way to measure distances between stars -- Antonia Caetana Maury : developed a new system for classifying stars -- Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin : called the most brilliant astronomer of her generation -- Helen Sawyer Hogg : Canada's favorite astronomer for fifty years -- Margaret Burbidge : described the way chemical elements form in stars -- Nancy Roman : pioneered radio astronomy and orbiting observatories -- Vera Rubin : discovered the problem that dark matter solved -- Beatrice Tinsley : a brilliant career cut tragically short -- Jocelyn Bell Burnell : discovered quasars -- Margaret Geller : found structure in the universe -- Carolyn Shoemaker : looks for comets that threaten Earth -- Sally Ride : astrophysicist and first U.S. woman in space -- Jill Tartar : searches for extra-terrestrial life -- Wendy Freedman : builds big telescopes and settles Hubble Constant -- A new generation of women reaches for stars and dreams.
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