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NASA Women in Lego
Achievements may be honored with prizes and medals, but few get represented as children's toys. However Lego responded to a proposal to showcase women in space and astronomy by making a Lego set representing four such women and their major contributions. Who were these wome

http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art305436.asp

*Henrietta Swan Leavitt - 150th anniversary of her birth*
American astronomer Henrietta Leavitt isn't a well known name, but a century ago she made one of the most important discoveries of 20th century astronomy. Previously, astronomers could only measure distances up to 100 light years, but her work extended that to 10 million light years. One of the first to use this relationship was Edwin Hubble who used it to show that the Andromeda “Nebula” was not part of the Milky Way, but a galaxy in its own right.

https://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art29166.asp

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