Born in England in 1900, Cecilia Payne originally intended to study botany at Cambridge University. But a lecture by the astronomer Sir Arthur Eddington about his 1919 expedition to test Einstein’s ...

Cecilia, named after Buckinghamshire-born astronomer and astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, was launched in June 2021. This was two months later than Florence, named after Florence ...