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Cosmos, Quickly: Remembering the Genius of Vera Rubin

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The Importance of Women in Science

Clara Moskowitz: The Vera Rubin Observatory is being built in Chile. She says it's the first observatory to be named in honor of a female astronomer. Ruben started seeing that these outside stars were still speeding around, she says.Moskowitz: It really offered the first strong evidence that there must be a lot of hidden mass extending way out beyond the stars we see with our eyes.

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