Every morning since billions of years The sun is rising on the earth. His inevitable presence cradled all civilizations and inspired most mythologies But despite this omnipresence The nature of the sun has remained a mystery during thousands of years. Impossible to know how he is made It is so far to we can't touch him, can't tast it can't smell it And it's the same with all other stars in the sky.
[Music] In the 19th century however, the mistery of the star's nature cleared And to do that It was enough to watch them Because for each stars, it's existing a bar code a bar code Of light [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] The person who understood who reag the bar code and who completly interpret. For know What is in stars, it's her. Cecilia Payne And the first things to Cecilia Payne had to do for study stars.
It's leave her country Because Cecilia it's a wife, and she lives in england, and in England in 1919, womans can't become scientifics For work, she must go in USA, where she is going to stay the rest of her life And it's here, in the univeristy of Harvard, who she started to study stars.
