Dale DeBakcsy
Summing the Cosmos: Henrietta Swan Leavitt and the Saga of the Cepheid Stars
Astronomy is the sifting science. Its practitioners rake the sky, star by star, collecting and cataloguing, and when they are done, they...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 24, 2023
Before There was Sagan: How Helen Sawyer Hogg Brought Astronomy to the People
Before, ‘The cosmos is all there is, all there ever was, all there ever will be,’ there was, ‘The stars belong to everyone,’ the...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 24, 2023
She Filled the Sky: Annie Jump Cannon, Iron Woman of Astronomy.
350,000 stars classified. It's one of astronomy’s unbreakable and frankly not even approachable records, the scientific equivalent of the...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 24, 2023
‘Bordering on the Marvellous’: The Astronomical Menagerie of Williamina Paton Fleming
When William Huggins became the first human to examine the spectrum of a star in 1864, he could little have imagined the magnitude of the...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 24, 2023
Hydrogen Rules the Universe: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Composition of Stars
‘You are young, and wrong. You must retract.’ When fresh-faced zeal confronts experience, it usually loses. Scientists who think they’ve...
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