The year is 1925. Astronomical consensus holds that the stars, including our Sun, are scaled-up versions of Earth, heavy with iron and silicon. This was cosmic dogma.
Then came Cecilia Payne.
A young, brilliant, and uncredentialed physicist who,...
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