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| The Vassar College Observatory, in Poughkeepsie, New York, represents the varied accomplishments of Maria Mitchell, the astronomer, professor and women's education crusader who taught at the observatory from 1865 to 1888. Mitchell's career began when she became the first American to record the sighting of a new comet, the same comet which now bears her name. In 1848, she became the first woman inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She traveled to Europe and became the first woman to see the Vatican observatory. |
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