She decided to move to America in 1923, where she could start working as a graduate student research fellow at the Harvard ...
Astronomers used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to reveal 44 stars in a galaxy so far away, its light dates to when the universe was half its age.
Leavitt worked at Harvard College Observatory as a "computer" who would analyze photographic plates taken by Harvard's telescopes. In particular, Leavitt would scrutinize images of the Small and ...
Quickly figuring the ascension, declination and magnitude of his find, he rushed the news by time-dated telegram to Harvard University Observatory, the astronomic clearing house for the western ...
a research institute jointly operated by the Harvard College Observatory and Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, said in a statement. Most galaxies, including our Milky Way, contain tens of ...