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Annie Jump Cannon's work evaluating the brightness of stars led to the spectral classification system used by astronomers today. A Fascination with Stars Born in 1863, Annie Jump Cannon was fortunate that her mother encouraged an interest in astronomy. Cannon learned the constellations as a child, and she and her mother observed the stars in the night sky from a lookout in their attic. Cannon's early love of the sky led her to study physics at… Read more

Is your school shifting from an in-person science fair to a virtual one? These nine steps provide an easy-to-follow roadmap for success. The annual science fair is a hallmark of student science and engineering for many schools, an event where the hard work students put into their independent science projects is on display for peers, family, teachers, the community, and judges. As a culmination of the individual science project process, the science fair… Read more