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Two other women who have made similar profound impacts upon astronomy are Henrietta Swan Leavit (who discovered Cephid Variable stars, which are used as "standard candles" for distance measurement), and Jocelyn Bell (who discovered the pulsar class of neutron stars).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cepheid_variable

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsar




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