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What do you do for your earning? Looking at the stars and daydreaming. Colleagues scatter all over the world, yet connected. Progress report comes from a team in India, followed by analysis by a member in Australia. These daydreamers double down when the technical challenges come their way. In the end, there will be a shining telescope starting to show how this world was born and how we the bipeds come to thrive on this planet. Shining indeed, since the effective coating on the mirror is one of the main items that we are working on.
 
How did we get here – many of the female astronomers ask themselves, and are often asked. In this case “here” implies “here” is not where the women or orientals should be.
 
In June 2022, courier arrived at the Convention Center in Pasadena, northeast of Los Angeles in California. The annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) was about to start after cancellations of such meetings due to the pandemic. Boxes came out from the truck, went to a booth at the exhibition hall. There, the book “Sky is for Everyone – Women Astronomers in Their Own Words –“ fresh off the printing company appeared. The pages were still sharp.
 
Some of my favorite quotes from the praises are:
 
“The particulars of each woman’s experience are unique, which is part of what makes their stories compelling”—Nicolle Zellner, American Scientist. When I pass by her at the AAS meeting by chance, she told me that she enjoyed reading my chapter and felt quite energized. Apparently she was in need of some positive nudging.
 
"These stories will absolutely inspire our next generation of female scientists."— Mary McIntyre, Journal of the British Astronomical Association. Not only women, but also anybody who is intrigued by the stars, planets, galaxies, and so on. I have high hope for the next generation of explorers both intellectual and in more tangible ways.
 
“They are the pathfinders who helped define our modern universe.”—Marcia Bartusiak, author of The Day We Found the Universe and Black Hole
 
“An inspiring anthology of writings by trailblazing female astronomers from 1960 to today.”—Simon Ings, New Scientist
 
I prefer pathfinder than trailblazer from the literal meaning to go for unknown, as well as reference to the Mars Pathfinder which included a rover named Sojourner. This wheeled vehicle, first on Mars, is named after Sojourner Truth, an abolitionist and women’s rights activist. My distinction is not from the auto makers (note: Trailblazer by Chevrolet, Pathfinder by Nissan).
 
Paraphrasing my own writing – at a conference two decades in the future, speakers report on their most recent discoveries of plate tectonics on a planet outside the solar system based on the observations from the telescope cluster on the other side of the Moon. Surely, we can get there if we are determined to do so. This carbon-based, wayfinding bipeds will continue to strive and thrive as we look to the stars to learn about the deep space and ourselves.
 

(Written by HAYASHI Saeko, Project Professor, Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe / 2025)