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Best Of: The Highest of All Ceilings, Astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

Lost Women of Science

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Revelation of Celestial Composition

Explore how astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin's early breakthroughs in categorizing stars by temperature and analyzing their elemental composition transformed our understanding of stellar composition at just 24 years old.

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