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May 9, 1922: Annie Jump Cannon, ‘Census Taker of the Sky’
(WHTM) — On May 9, 100 years ago, the International Astronomical Union adopted an “industry standard” for categorizing stars. Its creator was a Harvard “computer” named Annie Jump Cannon. Cannon was born in Delaware in 1863. Early on, she had an interest in the stars....