Dava Sobel: The Women Who Brought the Stars to Earth
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
English - April 11, 2023 03:30 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 3.3K ratingsSociety & Culture Science leadership entrepreneurship interview business health news politics entrepreneur comedy fitness Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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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.