Cosmos · SEASON 1
Sisters of the Sun
Episode 8 · 2014-04-27
- Documentary
Episode overview
Discover the remarkable story of Annie Jump Cannon and Cecilia Payne, two incredible women who challenged conventional wisdom and uncovered the real-life story of the stars. Cannon led a group of female astronomers in the early 20th century to catalogue the spectral characters of stars, and two decades later, young British beauty Payne joined forces with Cannon to analyze the data and uncover the chemical compositions of the stars. Later, travel on the Ship of the Imagination to explore the lives and deaths of stars.
43 minutes
Season 1 episodes
1. Standing Up in the Milky Way2014-03-09
2. Some of the Things that Molecules Do2014-03-16
3. When Knowledge Conquered Fear2014-03-23
4. A Sky Full of Ghosts2014-03-30
5. Hiding in the Light2014-04-06
6. Deeper, Deeper, Deeper Still2014-04-13
7. The Clean Room2014-04-20
8. Sisters of the Sun2014-04-27
9. The Lost Worlds of Planet Earth2014-05-04
10. The Electric Boy2014-05-11
11. The Immortals2014-05-18
12. The World Set Free2014-06-01
13. Unafraid of the Dark2014-06-08
