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 ...

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 ...

Ligia Bouton's "25 Stars: A Temporary Monument to Henrietta Swan Leavitt" installed at the temporary outbound Kendall/MIT station entrance. The Harvard Crimson The University Daily, Est.