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Did you know that over 100 years ago, a group of women at the Harvard College Observatory helped discover amazing things about space? Following Her Stars is your chance to explore the science and stories of these Women Astronomical Computers and become a space explorer yourself! Discover how they used special glass photographs to study the stars, then walk in their footsteps by taking your own pictures of the night sky using real telescopes with MicroObservatory!
Did you know that over 100 years ago, a group of women at the Harvard College Observatory helped discover amazing things about space? Following Her Stars is your chance to explore the science and stories of these Women Astronomical Computers and become a space explorer yourself! Discover how they used special glass photographs to study the stars, then walk in their footsteps by taking your own pictures of the night sky using real telescopes with MicroObservatory!
Discover Her Story
Discover Her Story
Each of these Women Astronomical Computers worked at the Harvard College Observatory – from the 1870s through the 1950s – studying and analyzing astronomical photographs.
Each of these Women Astronomical Computers worked at the Harvard College Observatory – from the 1870s through the 1950s – studying and analyzing astronomical photographs.
✨ Click on the profiles below to explore some of their incredible stories.
✨ Click on the profiles below to explore some of their incredible stories.
Follow Her Science
Follow Her Science
While studying the glass plate photographs, the Women Astronomical Computers made exciting discoveries that changed astronomy—like finding variable stars, examining the light of distant stars (stellar spectra), counting galaxies, and so much more.
🔍 Click on the glass plates below to uncover some of their amazing discoveries.
🔍 Click on the glass plates below to uncover some of their amazing discoveries.
Muriel Mussells Seyfert studied galaxies!
Williamina Fleming examined nebulae!
Helen Sawyer Hogg explored star clusters!
Henrietta Swan Leavitt measured variable stars!
Helen Sawyer Hogg image credit: Northern Electric Company Limited
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