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A color photo of Nancy Grace Roman. She is standing next to a bank of analog instruments, which she is looking at while writing on a stack of papers held in her left hand. She has on a grey-blue top with an intricate design, and is wearing glasses. Her short, grey hair is wavy. The bank of instruments features several needle readouts, clustered in groups of two, three, or four.

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A color photo of Nancy Grace Roman. She is standing next to a bank of analog instruments, which she is looking at while writing on a stack of papers held in her left hand. She has on a grey-blue top with an intricate design, and is wearing glasses. Her short, grey hair is wavy. The bank of instruments features several needle readouts, clustered in groups of two, three, or four.
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Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-May-2023 13:59:46 UTC Robert McNees

Astronomer Nancy Grace Roman was born OTD in 1925.
After early work in spectral classification and galactic evolution, she became NASA's first Chief of Astronomy and did foundational work planning and overseeing development of the Hubble Space Telescope.
It's no exaggeration to say that her work made the Hubble possible.
Images: NASA

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