Dava Sobel: The Women Who Brought the Stars to Earth
Dava Sobel: The Women Who Brought the Stars to Earth  
Podcast: Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
Published On: Tue Apr 11 2023
Description: 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.