1. Henrietta Swan Leavitt Katy Sternberger The Woman Who Measured the Universe

2. 1868-1921

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

4. The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds

5. 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

6. Triangulation

7. Leavitt Crater

8. 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)

9. Johnson, George. Miss Leavitts Stars. NewYork: W.W. Norton & Co., 2005. Sternberger, Katy. Henrietta Swan Leavitt. StarWrite.org For more information, see: