Henrietta Swan Leavitt

Katy Sternberger

The Woman Who Measured

the Universe

1868-1921

Behold the distant stars, how high they are.  - (Job 22:12)

The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds

“A straight line can readily be drawn among each of the two series of points

corresponding to maxima and minima, thus showing

that there is a simple relation between the

brightness of the variables and their periods.”- Henrietta Swan Leavitt

announcing her new law

Triangulation

Leavitt

Crater

There is one glory of the sun, and another glory

of the moon, and another glory of the

stars; for star differs from star in

glory. - (I Corinthians 15:41)

Johnson, George. Miss Leavitt’s Stars. NewYork: W.W. Norton & Co., 2005.

Sternberger, Katy. “Henrietta Swan Leavitt.” <StarWrite.org>

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