Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Mar 26, 2020
2 minutes
At a time when our understanding of planets, stars and the entire universe was continuously shifting, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin made a discovery about the Sun that contradicted beliefs at the time: that the Sun was composed mostly of hydrogen and helium, and not the same in composition as the rocky Earth. However,
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