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You may also use this content elsewhere, see Wikia:Licensing for details of the license.Famous female astronomers and astrophysicists[]
- Jocelyn Bell Burnell, the discoverer of pulsars
- Annie Jump Cannon
- Margaret Geller
- Caroline Herschel
- Maria Mitchell
- Ruby Payne-Scott
- Henrietta Swan Leavitt
- Jill Tarter, the inspiration for the main character of Carl Sagan's Contact
Other female astronomers and astrophysicists[]
- Amelia Fraser-McKelvie, who discovered some of the universe's missing mass as a university student
- Katie Mack theoretical astrophysicist and popular science writer
- Caroline Moore, youngest person to discover a supernova (age 14)