For this we pay homage to Henrietta Swan Leavitt, who in 1912 discovered a relationship between the brightness of a certain class of “variable” stars and the period over which their brightness ...

New York Times reporter Jonathan Swan pressed White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Tuesday on whether President Donald Trump committed an “abuse of power” by his own standards when ...

Astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt is credited with creating tools to help us map the starts in the universe. Now her life story is being told in a very unique way right here in Portland through ...

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told the hosts of the "Ruthless" podcast that the press was struggling with President Donald Trump and his team "having so much fun." ...

Hubble leveraged a discovery made by Henrietta Swan Leavitt 10 years earlier. She worked at the Harvard College Observatory as a ...

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 ...

Her mentor Harlow Shapley initially urged Payne to continue the work of a computer, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, who had realized that variations in some stars’ light could be used to measure distances.

The two people whose shoulders Hubble stood on the most, though, were Henrietta Swan Leavitt and Harlow Shapley. The most important stars in the universe.

However, the method Shapley used to measure distances across the Milky Way was critical to Hubble’s discovery, and was inherited from the work of a pioneering US astronomer: Henrietta Swan Leavitt.

Leavitt’s special stars. In 1912, Harvard College Observatory Director Edward Pickering published a report by a little-known assistant named Henrietta Swan Leavitt in the observatory’s circular.

Titled “25 Stars: A Temporary Monument to Henrietta Swan Leavitt,” the installation pushes the boundaries of medium and materiality to expose the groundbreaking research of its eponymous ...