Day 12 of my Inktober2020 series of Women I Admire is Annie Jump Cannon.
In a day where women were strongly discouraged from getting an education, voting, and basically thinking for themselves, there was Annie Jump Cannon. While the Karens of the world use the stars to see if they have a romantic match on their Tinder swipe, Annie actually knew them, and made some of the biggest contributions in the field of astronomy. Her standard of classifying stars is still used to today, and she could identify almost a half a million stars. She discovered 300 variable stars, five novas, and one spectroscopic binary, creating a bibliography that included about 200,000 references, which, according to wikipedia, is some amazing shit.
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