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Her Eyes on the Stars: Maria Mitchell, Astronomer

By Laurie Wallmark, Liz Wong (Illustrator)
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By Laurie Wallmark, Liz Wong (Illustrator)
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Maria Mitchell’s curiosity about the night sky led her to spend hours studying the stars. She discovered a comet as a young woman, winning an award from the King of Denmark for being the first person to discover a new comet using a telescope.

Now famous as “the lady astronomer,” Maria went on to become a professional astronomer, an unheard of achievement for a woman in the 19th century. She was the first woman to get any kind of government job when she was hired by the United States Naval Ob...

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