Cecilia Payne ~ Discovered what THE UNiVERSE is made of

EQUAL HOUSE - SIDREAL

Sun	26°00'		Aries
Moon	9°03'		Virgo
Mercury	5°47'		Aries
Venus	10°58'		Gemini
Mars	1°28'		Aries
Jupiter	14°46'	Я	Scorpio
Saturn	11°08'	Я	Sagittarius
Uranus	18°00'	Я	Scorpio
Neptune	1°59'		Gemini
Pluto	22°12'		Taurus
Chiron	0°41'	Я	Sagittarius
Ceres	19°38'		Capricorn
Pallas	3°49'		Capricorn
Juno	22°26'		Aquarius
Vesta	10°51'		Taurus
Node	17°48'	Я	Scorpio
Lilith	21°33'	Я	Leo

List of Aspects

			Orb
Jupiter	Conjunction	Uranus	Orb	3°14'
Mercury	Conjunction	Mars	Orb	4°19'
Venus	Conjunction	Neptune	Orb	8°58'
Neptune	Conjunction	Pluto	Orb	9°47'
Venus	Opposite	Saturn	Orb	0°10'
Uranus	Opposite	Pluto	Orb	4°11'
Jupiter	Opposite	Pluto	Orb	7°25'
Saturn	Opposite	Neptune	Orb	9°08'
Moon	Square	Venus	Orb	1°54'
Moon	Square	Saturn	Orb	2°05'
Moon	Square	Neptune	Orb	7°03'
Mercury	Trine	Saturn	Orb	5°21'
Mars	Sextile	Neptune	Orb	0°31'
Mercury	Sextile	Neptune	Orb	3°47'
Mercury	Sextile	Venus	Orb	5°10'
Moon	Sextile	Jupiter	Orb	5°43'
Sun	SemiSquare	Venus	Orb	0°01'
Mercury	SemiSquare	Pluto	Orb	1°24'
Sun	SesquiQuadrate	Saturn	Orb	0°08'
Mars	SesquiQuadrate	Uranus	Orb	1°32'
Mars	SesquiQuadrate	Jupiter	Orb	1°41'
Sun	SesquiQuadrate	Moon	Orb	1°56'

 

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin


Astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, born in Wendover, England, in 1900.

Payne went to the University of Cambridge to study botany but was captivated by a public lecture
by Arthur Eddington, the astronomer who observed the 1919 solar eclipse that confirmed
Einstein's general theory of relativity.

She switched her focus to physics and then astronomy.

Realizing the limited opportunities for female scientists in England,
Payne accepted a graduate fellowship at Harvard College Observatory.

There she studied stellar spectra, analyzing the light from stars
to deduce their chemical composition and other properties.

At the time researchers had classified stars into several categories
based on their spectra.

Many astronomers suspected that stars had largely the same composition
as Earth but differed in their surface temperature,
which led to the varying spectra.

In her PhD thesis, Payne quantified the different surface temperatures of the stellar classes.

But the spectra also led her to a startling conclusion:

Stars are made almost entirely of hydrogen and helium.

It took several years for astronomers to embrace that aspect of her thesis,
which a pair of prominent astronomers later called
"undoubtedly the most brilliant PhD thesis every written in astronomy."

Payne's insight has become a central tenet of astronomy and astrophysics:

The universe is awash in hydrogen, with stars and explosions such as supernovas
responsible for creating heavier elements.

Later in her career Payne turned her attention to variable stars
that ebb and flow in brightness.

In 1956, after decades as one of the world's leading astronomers,
Harvard finally made her a full professor,
the first woman to attain that title at the school.

To learn more about this pioneering scientist,
check out this interview conducted in 1968
and archived by the Center for History of Physics/Niels Bohr Library & Archives:

https://goo.gl/3LY9OG.

There's also an audio clip.