Henrietta Leavitt was born in Cambridge ... As a senior in 1892, Leavitt discovered astronomy. After graduation she took another course in it, but then spent several years at home when she ...

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 ...

Henrietta Leavitt joined the Harvard College Observatory as a volunteer in 1895. She was appointed to the permanent staff in 1902, and eventually became chief of the photometry department.

Because of the recent inclement weather, the updated run includes shows at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sunday and Monday, Feb. 22-24, as well as a 2 p.m. show on Sunday, Feb. 23.

Henrietta Leavitt was an American female astronomer who discovered how to measure vast distances in space during the 19th century, an era of disenfranchisement. The National Theater Company’s ...

It is the International Day Of Women And Girls In Science, and what better way to celebrate than to discuss the work of Henrietta Leavitt, the scientist who discovered Cepheid variables and laid the ...

Fremont Community Theatre is thrilled to announce its upcoming production of "Silent Sky," a spellbinding drama that explores the life and groundbreaking work of astronomer Henrietta Leavitt.

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 ...