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 ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Henrietta Swan Leavitt was a Harvard "computer" — one of several women in the early 1900s ...

This week on Looking Up guest host Caitlyn Voige illuminates a luminary by the name of Henrietta Swan Leavitt. When we look up into the night sky, stars look immeasurably small and distant ...

Turn-of-the-century astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt—she’s the one without whom Roger Hubble wouldn’t have a telescope, much less a major scientific standing—wastes no time letting us ...

Henrietta Swan Leavitt was one of many women “computers” who worked at Harvard University, cataloging stars around the turn of the last century.Women could be paid less than men, and were ...

Henrietta Swan Leavitt revolutionized astronomy and our understanding of the universe. “Silent Sky,” currently performing at Ford’s Theatre, finally gives her center sta… ...

Henrietta Swan Leavitt grasped for the stars at a time when women were usually confined to home and hearth. An astronomer who revolutionized our understanding of the vastness of the universe years ...

Henrietta Swan Leavitt was born on July 4, 1868, in Lancaster, Mass., the oldest of seven children. She was named for her mother, Henrietta Swan (Kendrick) Leavitt.

The life of astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt in the late 19th and early 20th centuries wasn't glamorous. Her tedious work and genius observations didn't guarantee fame or equality, at least not ...