Dava Sobel is author of The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars. (Viking, 2016) She’s based in New York, New York.
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The Stars Behind Our Stellar Classification System
Author Dava Sobel explains how a group of women astronomers helped develop the classification system that scientists use to identify stars today.
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The Female Astronomers Who Captured the Stars
At the beginning of the 20th century, a team of female astronomers at the Harvard College Observatory worked to classify the stars.