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 | #542642 in Books |  2012-05-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.10 x.60 x6.10l,1.00 | Binding: Library Binding | 128 pages

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In the 42 years that Edward Pickering directed the Harvard College Observatory, he and his team of women "computers" made strides in promoting the new field of astrophotography, discovered the first spectroscopic binary star system, and cataloged more than 225,000 stars. Pickering hired women such as Henrietta Leavitt, who found a way to measure the distances to faraway stars, and Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, whose later work became the foundation for astrophysics, to proce...

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