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Annie Jump Cannon Ordered the Stars

Annie Jump Cannon, known as “the census taker of the sky,” was a brilliant and pioneering astronomer responsible for the classification of hundreds of thousands of stars. Her system, the Harvard Classification Scheme, ranks stars as O, B, A, F, G, K, or M, with “O” being the hottest and “M” the coolest, and is still used today…

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