Oct 24, 2019
Maria Mitchell-American Astronomer
Best known for being the first professional female astronomer in the United States. She discovered a new comet in 1847 that became known as "Miss Mitchell's Comet."
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Maria Mitchell-American Astronomer
Best known for being the first professional female astronomer in the United States. She discovered a new comet in 1847 that became known as "Miss Mitchell's Comet."
This Santa nutcracker is out of this world! As an astronomer, he is fully equipped with telescope, compass and the universe painted on his robe and hat! It was made by a craftsperson of Germany's famed Erzgebirge Mountain region.
For all its material advantages, the sedentary life had left us edgy, unfulfilled. Even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we haven't forgotten. The open road still softly calls, like a nearly forgotten song of childhood.
Carl Sagan
Funny astronomy saying "Black Holes Are Out Of Sight" is a simple text design with a grunge overlay and a black hole illustration. This sci
Annie is most known for her modification of the stellar catalog, this is what we now know as OBAFGKM star classifications. Although Annie didn’t originate the idea of the stellar classification, she modified the model to what we use today. This is a major part of her legacy, some of her other achievements are:
Image Credit: Courtesy Wellesley College Archives
She became the curator of the Harvard Observatory in 1911 and was given a permanent position there in 1938.
She was the first woman to become a doctor of astronomy from the Groningen University in 1921 and got an honorary degree from Oxford in 1925.
In 1923 she was voted one of the 12 greatest living American women and even had an award named after her by the American Association of University Women.
In 1931 she was awarded with the Draper Award from the National Academy of Sciences.
Annie classified more than 500,000 stars, published many many papers, discovered some 300 variable stars, 5 novas, a spectroscopic binary, and SS Cygni (a dwarf nova which repeats itself every 60 days).
December 10th- Dream Job
"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."
I have so many dream jobs. Two of them include ( as seen in this double paged spread drawing) an astronomer or astro-physicist. The other would be a travel tour guide. Wait, let me rephrase. A DRUNK travel tour guide. :)
The first astronomers must have lived in the most beautiful places