The Women Who Measured the Stars

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, women astronomers from the Harvard College Observatory calculated the distances, temperatures and composition of the stars. Learn about their many challenges, obstacles and accomplishments and how they achieved serious scientific breakthroughs in our understanding of the universe. Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Annie Jump Cannon and Cecilia Payne-Gaposhkin are among the trailblazing women to be discussed.