Henrietta Swan Leavitt, an astronomer ahead of her time, discovered the relationship between a star’s brightness and its fluctuation period. This breakthrough allowed Edwin Hubble to measure galaxy ...

Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.

Henrietta Swan Leavitt was not famous in her lifetime. She did not win the Nobel Prize, although her name was being considered before her untimely death in 1921. Neither is it vital to this story that ...

Leavitt is a high performance computing cluster (HPCC) named in honor of Henrietta Swan Leavitt (left), an American astronomer whose discoveries at the turn of the 20th Century helped shape our ...

Henrietta Swan Leavitt. In 1893, a young Leavitt was hired as a "computer" to analyze images from telescope observations at Harvard College Observatory, Massachusetts. Leavitt studied photographic ...

Dark energy is still a mystery, but powerful new telescopes are set to uncover clues. With NASA and ESA leading the charge, ...

Henrietta Leavitt was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the daughter of a Congregational minister. She attended Oberlin College and the Society for Collegiate Instruction of Women (later Radcliffe ...

Henrietta Swan Leavitt was not famous in her lifetime. She did not win the Nobel Prize, although her name was ...

Henrietta Leavitt was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the daughter of a Congregational minister. She attended Oberlin College and the Society for Collegiate Instruction of Women (later Radcliffe ...