'Silent Sky' at Ford's Theatre celebrates the lives and achievements of early-20th-century women in astronomy by Amy Kotkin

Two generations before the African American space scientists immortalized in the film Hidden Figures propped up America's nascent space program, another group of pioneering female "computers" huddled in a cramped office beneath the Harvard College Observatory.  For years on end, they examined and recorded the brightness of stars from glass plates photographed through a telescope […] The post 'Silent Sky' at Ford…

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