Back when computation and observational astronomy were considered "women's work," Henrietta Swan Leavitt discovered the standard candle which lets us judge the distance of galaxies. At the time, many believed that the other galaxies were just nebulae.
She expanded our universe from a large number of stars, to an enormous multigalactic system.
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Back when computation and observational astronomy were considered "women's work," Henrietta Swan Leavitt discovered the standard candle which lets us judge the distance of galaxies. At the time, many believed that the other galaxies were just nebulae.
She expanded our universe from a large number of stars, to an enormous multigalactic system.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Leavitt