Williamina Fleming

1857-1911 but we still out here getting litty. acc run by Que Le

[Sir William Herschel @willhersheys]

@mrdrewsscience putting slips of paper in the scrotum of science and making his students pick them out

[Williamina Fleming @yagirlfleming]

@analogueself that's amazing! thank you for exposing the important and often overshadowed work of women astronomers ❤️ (also that's the end of tweets)

[Williamina Fleming @yagirlfleming]

@CosmosCarl34 @mrdrewsscience @hubblebubble673 @georgegamow1 @SirArthurEddie george and i be vibing in space my guy

[Williamina Fleming @yagirlfleming]

@MargaretGeller

[Williamina Fleming @yagirlfleming]

shoutout to Pickering for giving me a part-time job that set me on the path to becoming an astronomer

[Williamina Fleming @yagirlfleming]

it's sad boi hours when u think back to the time ur good for nothing husband left ur pregnant self in a new country

[Williamina Fleming @yagirlfleming]

i finally became recognized by the Harvard "corporation" and earned the title of Curator of Astronomical Photographs. doin the most

[Claudis Ptolemaeus @PtolemyClaudis]

Continued facts
I thought that Earth is round.
All my work on motion of planets is accurate
except the sun isn't in the middle.#stillbitter

[Williamina Fleming @yagirlfleming]

@MargaretGeller

[Sir Isaac Newton @ahajhdhwiwbs]

fun fall date ideas :
-frolicking in the leaves 🍂
-state fair😊🎢
-carving pumpkins🎃
-haunted houses😯👻
-145+ mph winds destroying ur town☺️🌪

[George Gamow @georgegamow1]

#didyaknow i was permitted to attend a conference in Brussels, which gave me an opportunity to escape the USSR and never return

[Williamina Fleming @yagirlfleming]

@PtolemyClaudis the real OG

[Williamina Fleming @yagirlfleming]

@NeildeGrasseTy8

[Williamina Fleming @yagirlfleming]

It was hard when I got to Boston, but opportunities opened up yEET

[Williamina Fleming @yagirlfleming]

did ya kno i examined nearly 200,000 photographic plates over the course of my career

[Williamina Fleming @yagirlfleming]

did ya kno i worked under Edward C. Pickering? he was the new director of the Harvard College Observatory

[Williamina Fleming @yagirlfleming]

@georgegamow1 @SirArthurEddie sorry, next time i'll specify girl's night is for girls

[Williamina Fleming @yagirlfleming]

did ya kno i was a maid before i was an astronomer

[Williamina Fleming @yagirlfleming]

@georgegamow1 @SirArthurEddie i wasn't aware we were in english class

[Williamina Fleming @yagirlfleming]

@georgegamow1 @SirArthurEddie girl's night out implies of the female gender 🤷🏻‍♀️ unless there's something we don't know 👀