Women Who Measured The Stars

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Adults
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Historical interpreter Rebecca Tulloch highlights the work of early 20th-century women astronomers at Harvard College Observatory, including Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Annie Jump Cannon, and Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin, who reshaped our understanding of the universe's scale and composition. Sign up begins 2/20.