Vera Rubin at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, in 1965 Courtesy, Carnegie Institution of Washington
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Ashley Jean Yeager
VERA RUBIN began her career at a time when women were denied access to telescopes at leading observatories. Eventually her work helped scientists rethink the content of the cosmos.
In Bright Galaxies, Dark Matter, and Beyond, science writer Ashley Jean Yeager traces the journey of this remarkable astronomer, the first woman to have a national observatory named after her: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, planned to open in…
