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Henrietta Leavitt
Henrietta Leavitt was born in ... This group studied photo images of stars to determine their magnitude. During her career, Leavitt discovered more than 2,400 variable stars, about half of the ...
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FINDS NEW VARIABLE STARS.; Miss Leavitt Picks Twenty-five by Means of Photographs.
A recent examination by Miss Henrietta S. Leavitt of plates taken with the 24-inch Bruce telescope has led to the discovery of twenty-five new variable stars, according to a circular issued to-day ...
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A century of cepheids: Two astronomers, 100 years apart, use stars to measure the universe
Top Image Caption: Henrietta Swan Leavitt (left) and Kate Hartman (right)—two astronomers a century apart studying Cepheid variable stars. Image by Carnegie's Cynthia Hunt and the SDSS collaboration.
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It's been 100 years since we learned the Milky Way is not the only galaxy
But the story detailed a groundbreaking discovery: Hubble had found that two spiral-shaped nebulae, objects made up of gas and stars ... US astronomer: Henrietta Swan Leavitt.
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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 ...
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How Edwin Hubble won the Great Debate
In 1912, Harvard College Observatory Director Edward Pickering published a report by a little-known assistant named Henrietta Swan Leavitt in ... of 25 Variable Stars in the Small Magellanic ...
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Henrietta Leavitt
Henrietta Leavitt was born in ... This group studied photo images of stars to determine their magnitude. During her career, Leavitt discovered more than 2,400 variable stars, about half of the ...