Closer to home, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, born in Lancaster, MA, in 1868, made powerhouse contributions to the field of astronomy, but her working conditions and recognition were fitting to her gender.

One woman, however, helped to find the distances to stars, and her name was Henrietta Swan Leavitt. Leavitt is famous for her discoveries as a computer at the Harvard College Observatory.

Henrietta Swan Leavitt was supposed to just be cataloguing stars and making calculations for the men at Harvard. But in 1912, she made a discovery that would forever revolutionize astronomy and ...

How did a Cepheid variable star help Edwin Hubble prove the Andromeda Nebula was a galaxy? Roger BradySan Quentin, California Cepheids are rare variable stars with periods ranging from about 1 to 120 ...

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… ...

The life of astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt in the late 19th and early 20th centuries wasn't glamorous. Her tedious work and genius observations didn't guarantee fame or equality, at least not ...

The central figure here is Henrietta Swan Leavitt, an astronomer at Harvard College Observatory in the first decades of the 20th century.

Miss Leavitt's Stars The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe George Johnson Atlas Books/W.W. Norton: 162 pp., $22.95 ...

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 play focuses on a woman named Henrietta Swan Leavitt, whose work laid the ground for later revelations, like the idea the universe is much bigger than our little solar system. When the Harvard ...

Early in the play the main character, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, arrives eager to start her job at the Harvard Observatory. But the star-gazing, Lancaster-born Radcliffe grad is confused by her job ...

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 ...