One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, a young Edwin Hubble settled astronomy’s ‘Great Debate’
A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...
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Leavitt HPC Cluster
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 ...
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SILENT SKY Comes to Mt Hood Repertory Theatre
Mt Hood Repertory Theatre is producing Silent Sky by Lauren Gundersen in partnership with OMSI.  Directed by Joellen Sweeney, ...
NASA celebrates Edwin Hubble's discovery of a new universe
For humans, the most important star in the universe is our sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the ...
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100 years ago, Edwin Hubble proved our Milky Way galaxy isn't alone
The two people whose shoulders Hubble stood on the most, though, were Henrietta Swan Leavitt and Harlow Shapley. Leavitt ...
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Three women who changed the way we see the Universe
Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and Vera Rubin changed the way we view the Universe. So why don't we hear more about them? Illustrations by Rebecca Hendin Follow BBC Reel on ...
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100 years ago, Edwin Hubble proved our Milky Way galaxy isn't alone
The two people whose shoulders Hubble stood on the most, though, were Henrietta Swan Leavitt and Harlow Shapley. Leavitt worked at Harvard College Observatory as a "computer" who would analyze ...