Henrietta Leavitt was an American female astronomer who discovered how to measure vast distances in space during the 19th century, an era of disenfranchisement. The National Theater Company’s ...

Temple Theater has revealed an exciting new lineup of shows for the 2025-26 Season. Temple Theaters has upcoming productions for everyone, from madcap comedy to dramatic musical theater.

The more luminous the Cepheid, the longer its pulsation cycle, a relationship discovered by astronomer Henrietta Leavitt 9. The rate at which the star pulsates is related to its intrinsic brightness.

and was inherited from the work of a pioneering US astronomer: Henrietta Swan Leavitt. In 1893, a young Leavitt was hired as a "computer" to analyze images from telescope observations at Harvard ...

From the warmth and simple order of the home set to the grandiose chaos of Harvard, Eastfield Theater Department’s newest ...

When Henrietta Leavitt begins work at the Harvard Observatory in the early 1900s, she isn’t allowed to touch a telescope or express an original idea. Instead, she joins a group of women “computers,” ...

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Estimating distances in astronomy is challenging ... Hubble leveraged a discovery made by Henrietta Swan Leavitt 10 years earlier. She worked at the Harvard College Observatory as a “human computer,” ...