She is an Astronomer (SIAA) is an official cornerstone project of the IYA. To celebrate the launch, women astronomers at the EWASS conference joined hands outside the ExoMars exhibition tent to replicate the striking image shown above and on the SIAA website. The original image shows some of the "women computers", women of the Harvard Observatory that counted and classified stars on photographic plates, typically taken by their male professors.
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