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Composition of the Universe
All the matter and energy we understand
dark matter The rest of dark energy the Universe
Description of a Sing lar Appearance seen in the Sun on September 1, 1859. By R. C. Car ing on, Esq.
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Credit: NASA Ames/SETI/J Rowe Credit: NASA Kepler-186f Ar st’s concept
Credit: NASA Ames/SETI Ins tute/JPL-Caltech ALMA
Na onal Science Founda on Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), C. Padilla Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) Cassini
Credit: NASA Saturn’s Moon Enceladus Credit: JPL-Caltech/NASA, Space Science Ins tute Jupiter’s Moon Europa
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X-ray flares seen from Milky Way black hole
Credit: D. Haggard Hubble Frontier Field
Abell 2744 Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Lotz, M. Mountain, A. Koekemoer, and the HFF Team (STScI)
Elisa Quintana Research Scien st SETI Ins tute and Ames Research Center
Catherine Vlahakis Lead Program Scien st ALMA Long Baseline Campaign Caolyn Porco Imaging Team Lead, Cassini mission
Jennifer Lotz Daryl Haggard Principal Inves gator Assistant Professor Hubble Fron er Fields Amherst College
Andrea Ghez Professor, UCLA AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY AWIS ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN IN SCIENCE Physical Sciences BA
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Why so few women in STEM?
• Research shows “implicit bias” common in STEM • Stereotype threat affects performance for minority groups • Not about math • Not about family
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• Research shows “implicit bias” common in STEM • Stereotype threat affects performance for minority groups • Not about math • Not about family Venice Marseilles Barcelona Constan nople
Alexandria Women “computers” at Harvard College Observatory ~1900 Henrietta Leavitt Cecilia Payne
h p://www.cfa.harvard.edu/ssp/stars_planets/solarspectrum.html Katherine Johnson
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Credits: NASA Vera Rubin
h ps://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/msingh-epor olio/2012/12/13/dark-ma er-and-the-missing-mass-of-the-universe/ Emily Levesque
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Andrea Ghez Annie Jump Cannon Jocelyn Bell Jameswith JWST… Webb Space Telescope 1992 Conference on Women in Astronomy Space Telescope Science Institute Baltimore, MD