Clyde Tombaugh, born on February 4, 1906 on a farm near Streator, developed a love of astronomy as a boy, attended Streator schools, borrowed science books from the city library, taught himself astronomy, and built homemade telescopes from old farm machinery and his father's Buick. At age 24, while working at the Lowell Observatory in Arizona on February 18, 1930, he discovered Pluto at the far reaches of the solar system, and the observatory staff gave the new planet its name. Over the next seven decades, he discovered two comets and hundreds of new stars and asteroids, becoming known for both hard work and a warm sense of humor. He died in 1997, and his legacy continued as NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, launched in 2006 for the first fly-by of Pluto, traveled nine years and billions of miles to reach the planet in 2015 carrying his ashes. The mission revealed new information about Pluto, including a large heart-shaped feature on its surface named Tombaugh Regio in his honor.