In turn, Payne-Gaposchkin changed astronomy when she proposed what the stars were made ... day open doors for other women who wished to do the same. Vera Rubin — who discovered that dark matter was ...

Rubin discovered a lot of what is known about ... "I hope you will love your work as I love doing astronomy," Rubin said at a commencement address in 1996. "I hope that you will fight injustice ...

"We discovered a galaxy which formed 15 billion times the mass of the sun in stars and then stopped forming stars before the universe was only 700 million years old." ...

A new model has been developed to simulate interstellar activity within our solar system and the nearby Alpha Centauri system ...