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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 Singlar Appearance seen in the on September 1, 1859. By R. C. Caringon, Esq.

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NASA Kepler

Credit: NASA/Kepler mission/Wendy Stenzel Discoveries

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Discovery Year

Credit: NASA Ames/SETI/J Rowe Exoplanet Discoveries

Previously Discovered Previously Discovered by Kepler Feb 26, 2014 Kepler announcement NumberNewof Planets

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Credit: NASA Ames/SETI/J Rowe Credit: NASA Kepler-186f Arst’s concept

Credit: NASA Ames/SETI Instute/JPL-Caltech ALMA

Naonal Science Foundaon 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 Instute 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 Scienst SETI Instute and

Catherine Vlahakis Lead Program Scienst ALMA Long Baseline Campaign Caolyn Porco Imaging Team Lead, Cassini mission

Jennifer Lotz Daryl Haggard Principal Invesgator Assistant Professor Hubble Froner 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 Constannople

Alexandria Women “computers” at Harvard College Observatory ~1900 Henrietta Leavitt Cecilia Payne

hp://www.cfa.harvard.edu/ssp/stars_planets/solarspectrum.html Katherine Johnson

Credits: NASA Margaret Hamilton

Credits: NASA Vera Rubin

hps://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/msingh-eporolio/2012/12/13/dark-maer-and-the-missing-mass-of-the-universe/ Emily Levesque

Beatrice Tinsley

Andrea Ghez Annie Jump Cannon Jocelyn Bell Jameswith JWST… Webb Space Telescope 1992 Conference on Women in Space Telescope Science Institute Baltimore, MD