![]() ![]() ![]() Still, once at work all three women were instrumental in advancing the astronomical understanding of their time.Īnnie Cannon devised the spectral classifying of stars still in use today, and discovered an extensive catalog including 300 variable stars also still in use to measure cosmic distances. All of the women profiled in the episode worked at the Harvard Observatory under its director Edward Pickering, whose motive was less than enlightened he preferred women to act as "calculators" and pore over star images because they had no choice but to accept less pay than men would have.
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