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Dava Sobel: The Women Who Brought the Stars to Earth

Published: April 11, 2023, 3:30 a.m.

b'Starting in the late 19th century, a group of women at the Harvard Observatory pored over hundreds of thousands of glass photographic plates bearing images of billions of stars. It was the beginning of a revolution in understanding what stars are made of and how far away they are.'