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Yeager, Ashley Jean, author.
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Rubin, Vera C., 1928-2016.
Astronomers -- United States -- Biography.
Women astronomers -- United States -- Biography.
Dark matter (Astronomy)
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Bright galaxies, dar...
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Bright galaxies, dark matter, and beyond : the life of astronomer Vera Rubin / Ashley Jean Yeager.
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Yeager, Ashley Jean, author.
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2021]
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Rubin, Vera C., 1928-2016.
Astronomers -- United States -- Biography.
Women astronomers -- United States -- Biography.
Dark matter (Astronomy)
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9780262046121 (hardcover) :
0262046121 (hardcover) :
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xiv, 236 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Contents:
Stellar tales -- Dark matter's -- Waiting on the stars -- Threads of research : a rotating universe and radio astronomy -- Chasing stars -- A clumpy cosmos -- Career challenges and galactic questions -- A taste of astronomy -- At last, a real astronomer -- Andromeda's young, hot stars -- The matter we cannot see -- More matter than meets the eye -- Diving into dark matter -- Gender equality in astronomy : a darker universe? -- The final nights.
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"The biography of a pioneering woman astronomer whose work was ignored until she uncovered evidence for the existence of dark matter--and then was passed over for the Nobel prize"--
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