History doesn't always mean the distant past. The woman who discovered what the universe is made of could have seen Star Wars.

https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/the-astronomer-who-discovered-what-the-universe-was-made-of

The astronomer who discovered what the universe was made of

Cecelia Payne-Gaposchkin was an amazing scientist, and her work wasn’t all that long ago

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@badastro But... did she? ::squints::