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 ...

Henrietta Swan Leavitt's discoveries about variable stars helped other astronomers measure stellar distances.

Henrietta Swan Leavitt revolutionized astronomy and our understanding of the universe. "Silent Sky," currently performing at Ford's Theatre, finally gives her center stage.

LANCASTER — Henrietta Swan Leavitt’s 150th birthday passed with very little fanfare in her hometown. Admittedly, she didn’t live there long. Born in Lancaster on July 4, 1868, her family ...

Leavitt HPC Cluster Leavitt – What is it? Leavitt is a high performance computing cluster (HPCC) named in honor of Henrietta Swan Leavitt (left), an American astronomer whose discoveries at the turn ...

Henrietta Swan Leavitt discovered a relationship between the period of a star's brightness cycle to its absolute magnitude. The discovery made it possible to calculate their distance from Earth.

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 ...

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.

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 worked at Harvard University cataloging stars. Through her work, astronomers have come to understand how to use Cepheid variable stars as cosmic signposts.