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Art Challenge Honors Astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

Original: For # spacetober_challenge prompt 26 sun/star: astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979), a trailblazer for wo

Participants in the Spacetober art challenge are honoring astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin for the prompt 'sun/star'. The English-born scientist, who studied at Newnham College, Cambridge, discovered that hydrogen and helium are the most abundant elements in the universe, and is celebrated as a trailblazer for women in astronomy.

Why now: An art challenge prompt is prompting people to share tributes to her pioneering scientific work.

Cecilia Payne-GaposchkinSpacetober challengeNewnham College, Cambridge

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• For # spacetober_challenge prompt 26 sun/star: astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979), a trailblazer for women in # astronomy who discovered that hydrogen and helium are the most common elements in the universe.⁠ ⁠ Born England, she won a scholarship to Newnham… · minouette@spore.social · 58

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