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Dr. Nancy Grace Roman – Courtesy NASA, Wikimedia Commons. In 1925, Nancy Grace Roman was born in Nashville, Tennessee. Her family moved frequently during her childhood, but it was her mother who first introduced her to the night sky. By the time Roman was 11 and living in Reno, Nevada, she had organized an astronomyContinueContinue reading “September 2026 – The Mother of Hubble”

M104 Sombrero Galaxy, courtesy Joel Cohen, Prescott Astronomy Club.  Taken from Prescott Valley, AZ with Astro-Physics Starfire 178 7-inch f/9 APO. The late 18th Century was a golden age of astronomical discoveries.  After Galileo famously pointed his early invention at the heavens in 1609, Dutch glassmakers spent decades perfecting the lens technology that allowed forContinueContinue reading “May 2024 – The Sombrero Galaxy”