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Even today, the names of women in astronomy are not as well known as they should be.
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Honoring the Women of Astronomy
Even today, the names of women in astronomy are not as well known as they should be.
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August 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Happy Women Astronomers Day!
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#WomanAstro
#WomeninSTEM
#WomeninScience
cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · Aug 1
On this day in 1905, Helen Sawyer Hogg was born.
As an astronomer, she pioneered research into globular clusters and variable stars. She also inspired many to pursue science through her Toronto Star column With the Stars, that ran from 1951 to 1981.

📸 University of Toronto
Helen Sawyer Hogg standing beside a large telescope inside an observatory. She is holding papers and looking upward with a slight smile. The black-and-white photograph emphasizes the scale of the telescope above and behind her, with the observatory interior visible in the background.
August 1, 2026 at 2:12 PM
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February 11, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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March 7, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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April 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Happy Women Astronomers Day!
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#WomenAstronomersDay
#WomenInAstronomy
#WomanAstro
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#WomeninScience
admirablewomen.bsky.social Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · Aug 1
Maria Mitchell was the first professional female astronomer in the US.🔭

* First American to discover a new comet, 1847 ☄️
* First woman elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences & the American Assoc for the Advancement of Science

She was born #OTD in 1818. #WomenInSTEM #astronomy
A black-and-white historical portrait of Maria Mitchell (1818–1889), America’s first professional female astronomer and the first American to discover a comet. Shown from the waist up, Mitchell sits in a three-quarter profile facing right, her dark eyes looking forward with a serious, dignified, and determined expression. Her light hair is styled in tightly curled ringlets framing her face. She wears a dark, lustrous silk or satin dress with a high collar, a white neck frill, and an intricate, dark lace shawl draped over her right shoulder. She leans against the dark, carved wooden railing of a chair or balustrade in the foreground. The composition features soft studio lighting against a plain, dark, finely textured gradient background, casting a gentle shadow to the left. The overall mood is solemn, intellectual, and reverent, capturing her historical significance as a pioneering 19th-century scientist and advocate for women in STEM.
August 1, 2026 at 2:18 PM
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December 5, 2024 at 3:41 PM
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It's no coincidence that #WomenInAstronomy Day is on Maria Mitchell's birthday. Read more about this amazing woman in my book, HER EYES ON THE STARS: MARIA MITCHELL ASTRONOMER. @steamteambooks @lizaroyceagency @crestonbooks #astronomy #space #bookposse #educators #WomenInSTEM #scicomm #STEM #STEAM
August 1, 2024 at 5:10 PM
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- Natalia Porqueres (CEA Paris-Saclay)

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March 4, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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#Nvidia announced they'll be naming an advanced chip for doing AI after astronomer #VeraRubin, whose work led to our understanding that a major part of the universe is made of #darkmatter, whose nature we don't understand.
#astronomy #astroedu #womeninastronomy #space #astronomyhistory #scientists
Vera Rubin in 1991 (Photo by Andrew Fraknoi)
March 26, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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December 10, 2024 at 4:01 PM
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- Alkistis Pourtsidou (@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social)

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February 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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November 15, 2024 at 4:10 PM
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September 10, 2024 at 4:17 PM
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November 29, 2024 at 4:32 PM
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...It’s the feeling of discovery and exploration. You’re seeing things which no-one has ever seen before."

- Elisabeth Sola (@cambridgeastro.bsky.social)

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April 14, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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September 19, 2024 at 3:47 PM
imaginedmemoir.bsky.social
You can get to know Williamina Fleming (standing) in my historical fiction novel based on her life as the Scottish immigrant, single mother who was one of Harvard's Women Computers. a.co/d/43DqYTB
#astrohistory #womeninstem #womeninastronomy
September 24, 2025 at 1:33 AM
skyandtelescope.bsky.social
The groundbreaking research of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin revolutionized our understanding of stellar composition. Yet her legacy was almost forgotten. buff.ly/4irzgot
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#WomenInSTEM #WomenInScience #FemaleAstronomers #WomenInAstronomy #astronomy #science #starscience #stellarscience #stars
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: The Woman Who Unraveled the Stars
Her legacy was almost forgotten, but the groundbreaking research of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin revolutionized our understanding of stellar composition.
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December 11, 2024 at 2:27 PM
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February 20, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Watching the #Eclipse ca. 1900 - The Dillon Family of Clonbrock House #Galway #Ireland - via @nlireland.bsky.social

#womeninscience #womeninastronomy #SolarEclipse #photography #Eclipse2026 #manreadsnewspaper #envhist #astronomy #nature #telescope #newspaper

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Black and white image of women (wearing hats and long dresses) sitting on house steps using eclipse viewers and telescope; dog sniffing ground in foreground; whiskered man reads newspaper.
August 12, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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📅 Today is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. 👩‍🔬🧪🔭 Let’s put those in the research fields of the Royal Observatory of Belgium in the spotlight. 🎉
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Collage of portrait of women around the text “Women in Science at the Royal Observatory of Belgium”
February 11, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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- Anna Porredon (@annamporredon.bsky.social, CIEMAT - Madrid)

#HumansOfEuclid
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September 3, 2024 at 3:18 PM
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As long as you keep pushing forward, you will get there. #astronomy #astrophysics #studentsinstem #womeninstem #aas #womeninastronomy #studentsinastronomy #spaceforstudents

More @ youtu.be/txqGsxI6i_8
November 15, 2024 at 12:48 AM
imaginedmemoir.bsky.social
Read more about Williamina Fleming (one of the "Harvard Women Astronomers," standing in the photo above) in my book, "An engaging, thoughtful introduction to an overlooked scientific pioneer."--Kirkus Reviews #womeninstem #womeninastronomy #astrohistory
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
WILLIAMINA FLEMING, ASTRONOMER | Kirkus Reviews
An abandoned wife becomes an acclaimed astronomer in Vizurraga’s fictionalized autobiography of a real-life woman who charted the stars while navigating the constraints of her era.
www.kirkusreviews.com
November 2, 2025 at 3:01 AM