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Maria Kirch was the first woman to discover a comet, but her husband took the credit
Read now →Even 300 years later, Maria Margaretha Winkelmann Kirch is denied credit for her work
Dr. JoEllen McBride is a mom, science communicator and astrophysicist whose main purpose is to make science inclusive and accessible to anyone that wants to participate. She earned her Ph.D in Physics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2016. Her research focused on galaxies that live close to each other and how that affected their ability to create stars. After that, she was a AAAS Mass Media Fellow at Voice of America in Washington D.C. and an adjunct faculty member in the physics department at West Chester University. She currently works as an astronomy subject matter expert for hire and is a board member of the AAS Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy.
Meet Annie Jump Cannon, who cataloged and ranked over 300,000 stars by their hotness
Read now →A century later, her system is still used today
Galaxies are eating each other and the Milky Way might be next
Read now →Astronomers see a trail of destruction in the patterns of Andromeda's stars.
Dr. Vera Rubin deserves her name on new telescope designed to study dark matter
Read now →This is a great and fitting opportunity to honor her scientific contributions
Earth is surrounded by minor planets — look no further than the Asteroid Belt
Read now →New Horizons had eyes for Pluto and MU69, but Mariakirch is much closer to home
