Henrietta Leavitt was born in Cambridge ... As a senior in 1892, Leavitt discovered astronomy. After graduation she took another course in it, but then spent several years at home when she ...

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 ...

At the Harvard College Observatory in years around 1900, women were hired to make measurements of astronomical data and do ...

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 ...

Silent Sky” is the true story of 19th century astronomer Henrietta Leavitt. The Guild production plays from March 21 to April ...

Fremont Community Theatre is thrilled to announce its upcoming production of "Silent Sky," a spellbinding drama that explores the life and groundbreaking work of astronomer Henrietta Leavitt.

The true story of early 19th century astronomer Henrietta Leavitt explores a woman’s place in society during a time of immense scientific discoveries, when women’s ideas were dismissed until ...

a play highlighting the achievements of a groundbreaking female astronomer. The play, written by Lauren Gunderson, tells the true story of Henrietta Leavitt, a woman who discovered how to measure ...

Set in the early 1900s, “Silent Sky” by Lauren Gunderson tells the remarkable true story of Henrietta Leavitt, a brilliant astronomer. Working at the Harvard Observatory, Henrietta’s ...

Photo: Andromeda nebula plate with Hubble's handwritten circle around the variable star he discovered In 1919 American astronomer ... In 1912 Henrietta Leavitt had shown that cepheid variables ...