Great Heroes and Discoveries of Astronomy Episode 3, Harvard Heroines Show Us the Stars Episode 3, Harvard Heroines Show Us the Stars.

Streaming video - 2021

With so many stars, could we possibly study them all? Enter three women: Williamina Fleming, who developed a method for classifying stars based on their spectra; Annie Jump Cannon, who rearranged the classification system's order using multiple elements; and Cecilia Payne, who established the first temperature scale for stars based on their classifications and spectral appearances.