In 1908, Henrietta Swan Leavitt published her groundbreaking hypothesis about the luminosity of Cepheid stars and how their changing brightness could be used to calculate distance. Originally one of “Pickering’s Harem” - the term applied to the women “computers” under the supervision of Harvard University astronomer and physicist Edward Pickering - Henrietta pursued her own inquiries into stars and galaxies during her free time. While measuring space has become commonplace in astrophysics today, in Henrietta’s time this discovery changed the way astronomers observed the sky. Even more than
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