AstronomyCast 362: Carolyn Porco

by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay

Maria Zuber is one of the hardest working scientists in planetary science, being a part of six different space missions to explore the Solar System. Currently, she’s the lead investigator for NASA’s GRAIL mission.

AstronomyCast 361: Maria Zuber

by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay

Jocelyn Bell Burnell is an Irish astronomer, best known for being part of the team that discovered pulsars, and the following controversy when she was excluded from the Nobel Prize winning team.

AstronomyCast 360: Jocelyn Bell Burnell

by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay

Margaret Geller is best known for her work on the large scale structure of the Universe, helping us understand the large clusters, super clusters and cosmic filaments that matter clumps into.

AstronomyCast 359: Margaret Geller

by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay

AstronomyCast 358: Sandra Faber

by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay

Our focus on female astronomers continues with Sandra Faber, and Professor of Astronomy at UC Santa Cruz. Faber was part of the team that turned up the Great Attractor, a mysterious mass hidden by the disk of the Milky Way.

It’s time for another series. This time we’ll be talking about famous female astronomers. Starting with: Vera Rubin, who first identified the fact that galaxies rotate too quickly to hold themselves together, anticipating the discovery of dark matter.