ALL POSTS
Queen Seondeok and the Construction of East Asia’s First Astronomical Observatory.
Summing the Cosmos: Henrietta Swan Leavitt and the Saga of the Cepheid Stars
Kepler, For the People: Maria Cunitz’s Urania Propitia and the Popularisation of Heliocentrism.
Before There was Sagan: How Helen Sawyer Hogg Brought Astronomy to the People
The Concerns of the Earth, and Above: Mae Jemison’s Life in Medicine and Space Travel.
Jane Luu and the Discovery of the Kuiper Belt.
Studies in Expectation: Jocelyn Bell-Burnell and the Discovery of Pulsars.
‘The Somewhat Nerve-Wearing Experience’: Sarah Frances Whiting Rewrites Women’s Science Education
Making Spectroscopy Hip: Agnes Mary Clerke at the Nerve Centre of 19th Century Astrophysics
She Filled the Sky: Annie Jump Cannon, Iron Woman of Astronomy.
‘Bordering on the Marvellous’: The Astronomical Menagerie of Williamina Paton Fleming
One Life for the Sun: Hisako Koyama’s Half Century of Solar Observation.
Computing Venus: The Trailblazing Path of Maria Mitchell
Eight Comets, 2500 Nebulae: Caroline Herschel’s Century of Astronomy
The Secrets Stars Keep: Lady Margaret Huggins, Pioneer of Spectral Photography
Valentina Tereshkova: The First Woman in Space
She Followed the Sun: Ruby Payne-Scott, the World’s First Woman Radio Astronomer
Hydrogen Rules the Universe: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and the Composition of Stars
Nancy Grace Roman and the Birth of the Hubble Space Telescope.
Margaret Burbridge and the Dawn of Nucleosynthesis Theory