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Dava Sobel: The Women Who Brought the Stars to Earth

Dava Sobel: The Women Who Brought the Stars to Earth

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
Sea. 20 Ep. null39 min
11 Apr 23
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Starting in the late 19th century, a group of women at the Harvard Observatory pored over hundreds of thousands of glass photographic plates bearing images of billions of stars. It was the beginning of a revolution in understanding what stars are made of and how far away they are.