![]() Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play Working tirelessly to analyze the glass plates depicting our universe, created by the then-budding field of photography and spectroscopy, women revealed the size of the Milky Way and created a stellar classification system that's still in use today. ![]() These women and their work are the subject of New York Times bestseller Dava Sobel's latest book, The Glass Universe ( $15 / Viking). Aided by a collection of women scientists, known as "computers," the Harvard College Observatory made some of the most important discoveries of its time. Led by director Edward Pickering, the observatory turned its attention from analyzing the positions of celestial objects toward what figuring out what the stars were made of. And then, a huge change came to the Harvard College Observatory. In the 1880s, opportunities for women in science were almost non-existent, and astronomy was dominated by men since humans first started looking to the stars. ![]() ![]() Williamina Fleming supervises other female "computers" at the Harvard College Observatory The Glass Universe ![]()
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