Before Edwin Hubble, there was Henrietta Leavitt, whose work made other astronomers’ discoveries possible. Her way of looking is a testament to the power of attention in science, art, and life.

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 ...

Hillary Taylor portrays the "almost forgotten" astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt, who worked as a "computer" for Harvard Observatory.

The life of Henrietta Leavitt (1868-1921) has been resurrected on stage. Henrietta Leavitt was an American female astronomer who discovered how to measure vast distances in space during the 19th ...

Fans of Hidden Figures and The Glass Universe will appreciate Anna Von Mertens’s captivating portrait of Henrietta Leavitt and the Harvard Computers, who laid the foundation for modern cosmology ...

At the turn of the 20th century, years before women had the right to vote, Henrietta Leavitt was determined to reach for the stars through her passion for astronomy. Known as “the woman who ...

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 ...

Ligia Bouton's "25 Stars: A Temporary Monument to Henrietta Swan Leavitt" installed at the temporary outbound Kendall/MIT station entrance. By Courtesy of Ligia Bouton ...

In the early 1900s, Henrietta Swan Leavitt of Harvard College Observatory examined photographic glass plates of the Magellanic clouds and discovered a record 1,777 new variable stars, some of ...

Sarah Stamm as Margaret Leavitt, Henrietta's devoted sister, whose music and faith provide an emotional counterpoint to Henrietta’s scientific pursuits.

Carpenter Square Theatre is celebrating Women’s History Month with its latest production, Silent Sky, a play highlighting the achievements of a groundbreaking female astronomer.