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• - Information on Caroline Herschel, Annie Jump Cannon, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, and Vera Rubin.
  
• - Biographies of Janet Mattei, Maria Mitchell, and Doritt Hoffleit, with and interview with Janet Mattei.
  
• - Short biographies of various women in astronomy.
  
• - The text and images from a slide set on women astronomers available from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Includes capsule biographies of women from Carolyn Herschel to Sidney Wolff.
  
• - Women's contributions to science, from antiquity to the nineteenth century.
  
• - Description of the contributions made by women to the United States Naval Observatory.
  
• - Bibliographies of women in astronomy.
  
• - Biographical information of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and other Harvard women. Includes photographs and links.
  
• - A museum dedicated to the contributions women have made in the air and space sciences.
  
• - A radio show episode about German women astronomers in the 17th century.
  
• - About.Com's guide to women astronomers.