• A white woman in her 30s stands next to the eyepiece of a large telescope. She has dark wavy hair and is wearing a sleeveless blue dress. She is looking up. The photograph has the slightly warm tint indicative of photos from the 1960s.
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    The gallery highlights the work of Vera Rubin, who made observations from ground-based telescopes that provided evidence for the existence of dark matter.

  • A white woman in her 30s stands next to the eyepiece of a large telescope. She has dark wavy hair and is wearing a sleeveless blue dress. She is looking up. The photograph has the slightly warm tint indicative of photos from the 1960s.

Created:

July 01, 1965

ID#:

NASM 9A05625

Credit:

The Carnegie Institution For Science

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Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum

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