The Australian physicist Ruby Payne-Scott )helped lay the groundwork for a whole new kind of astronomy: radio astronomy). By scanning the skies for radio waves instead of the light waves we can see with our eyes, Ruby and her colleagues opened a window into the universe and transformed the way we explore it. But to keep her job as a woman working for the Australian government in the 1940s, Ruby had to keep a pretty big secret.
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