Maria Mitchell Observatory Trip, Nantucket Island

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Dave Hurdis in front of the scope installed at the Mitchell Observatory in 1908. This scope has taken more than 8,000 photographic plates of the heavens. Image by Dan Lorraine

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Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA/NASA

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