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The story of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, the astronomer who discovered what the universe is made of. She proposed in her 1925 doctoral thesis that stars were composed primarily of hydrogen and helium. Her conclusion was initially rejected, later proved true https://t.co/FJU6eZZRPJ https://t.co/rQFGUzn0Rb



Ahahahaha, the James Webb Space Telescope continues to deliver massive L’s for astrophysics.
A new paper shows that the “Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation” can be explained entirely by the energy of recently discovered Early Mature Galaxies — massive galaxies that the JWST discovered which crushed the existing... See more