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The librarian who became Palomar's first female telescope operator, and who discovered her own comets

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More times than she can remember, Jean Mueller stood on the catwalk of the 200-inch Hale Telescope at the Palomar Observatory ...
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Caltech professor becomes first woman to head Palomar Observatory

For astrophysicist Mansi Kasliwal, her appointment to the historic Palomar Observatory as the new director was a full-circle moment. The California Institute of Technology announced her new position ...
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Mansi Kasliwal Becomes First Woman To Lead Caltech’s Palomar Observatory

PASADENA, CA — When Mansi Manoj Kasliwal was 15, she left her hometown of Indore, for boarding school in the United States. Encouraged by a teacher to pursue science, she soon found herself working on ...
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Dennis Mammana: For 35 Years, Hubble Space Telescope Has Revolutionized Our View of the Cosmos

When I was in grade school I was fascinated by the world’s largest telescope: the 200-inch-diameter Hale Reflector on Palomar Mountain near San Diego. What a behemoth! At the time I enjoyed using a ...
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The librarian who became Palomar's first female telescope operator, and who discovered her own comets

More times than she can remember, Jean Mueller stood on the catwalk of the 200-inch Hale Telescope at the Palomar Observatory scanning the night sky, trying to time the exact moment to close the dome.