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New children’s book celebrates pioneering astronomer Maria Mitchell

Pioneering astronomer Maria Mitchell is the star of a kid’s book using an ancient language she happened to know: Latin.

Massachusetts-born Maria Mitchell (1818-1889) is best known for discovering a comet in 1847 and working to inspire women astronomers as a professor of astronomy at Vassar College, which she joined in 1865. Some 205 years after her birth, Mitchell continues to inspire as the first U.S. woman astronomer.

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