Women and Girls in Astronomy

Who was the first woman to discover a comet?

• Maria Mitchell

• Annie Jump Cannon

• Mary Somerville

• Caroline Herschel

Which female astronomer developed a classification system for stars that is still used today?

• Annie Jump Cannon

• Rosalind Franklin

• Sally Ride

• Marie Curie

Name the woman astronomer who was the first to be awarded a Ph.D. in astronomy from Radcliffe College.

• Caroline Herschel

• Annie Jump Cannon

• Henrietta Swan Leavitt

• Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

Which female astronomer's work led to the discovery of the first evidence of dark matter?

• Vera Rubin

• Ada Lovelace

• Sally Ride

• Marie Curie

Who was the first woman to receive a doctorate in astrophysics from the University of Cambridge?

• Sally Ride

• Jocelyn Bell Burnell

• Marie Curie

• Ada Lovelace

Name the astronomer who discovered the first evidence of an atmosphere around an exoplanet.

• Johannes Kepler

• Isaac Newton

• David Charbonneau

• Galileo Galilei

Which female astronomer was the first to propose the idea of dark energy?

• Annie Jump Cannon

• Caroline Herschel

• Maria Mitchell

• Vera Rubin

Who was the first woman to become president of the American Astronomical Society?

• Vera Rubin

• Sally Ride

• Marie Curie

• Jane Goodall

Name the astronomer who discovered the first pulsar.

• Galileo Galilei

• Isaac Newton

• Jocelyn Bell Burnell

• Carl Sagan

Which female astronomer's research contributed to the understanding of the rotation of galaxies?

• Ada Lovelace

• Sally Ride

• Marie Curie

• Vera Rubin