BroadwayWorld17d
SILENT SKY Comes to Mt Hood Repertory Theatre
Silent Sky tells the story of pioneering astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt and explores ... taken with the telescope. Leavitt found 2,400 new variable stars and made important discoveries ...
Space on MSN16d
100 years ago, Edwin Hubble proved our Milky Way galaxy isn't alone
Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.
The Star That Proved the Universe Is Bigger Than We Imagined
Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...
One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, a young Edwin Hubble settled astronomy’s ‘Great Debate’
Hubble’s work pushed the field of astronomy forward, starting with his paper demonstrating that some objects exist outside ...
Science Daily19d
NASA celebrates Edwin Hubble's discovery of a new universe
The second-most important star is nestled inside the Andromeda ... There are no tape-measures in space, but by the early 20th century Henrietta Swan Leavitt had discovered that the pulsation ...
EurekAlert!19d
NASA celebrates Edwin Hubble’s discovery of a new universe
The seemingly inauspicious star, simply named V1 ... There are no tape-measures in space, but by the early 20th century Henrietta Swan Leavitt had discovered that the pulsation period of Cepheid ...
Times Union9d
One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, a young Edwin Hubble settled astronomy’s ‘Great Debate’
Some were gaseous, star-forming regions ... Hubble leveraged a discovery made by Henrietta Swan Leavitt 10 years earlier. She worked at the Harvard College Observatory as a “human computer ...