2016
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Question
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Name the Pioneering astronomer, who has passed away on on 25 December 2016
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Annie Jump Cannon
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Caroline Herschel
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Robert Woodrow Wilson
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Vera Rubin
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Rubin is perhaps best known for helping to establish the importance of dark matter in the universe, a consequence of her painstaking research of spiral galaxies, much of it a team effort with physicist Kent Ford.
Detailed explanation-2: -Vera Rubin, American astronomer who established the presence of dark matter in galaxies, measures spectra in the 1970s.
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