The Hubble Space Telescope is being superseded by the Webb Space Telescope, but that groundbreaking instrument filled us with awe, opening up a window to the stars and causing us to gasp at the complexity of the universe God created. But as staggeringly beautiful we have found the cosmos to be, in some ways what we can’t see is far more awe-inspiring.

Astronomer Vera Rubin (1928-2016) opened up the invisible to a world that refused to see it, and to be honest, her! Her deserved recognition was late in coming, mostly because she was a woman in what was once an almost exclusively male — and male chauvinist — field. While working at Palomar Observatory in the San Diego area, for instance, she was told there were no restrooms for women. So she cut out the silhouette of a figure wearing a skirt …