PRESS: Sky & Telescope Magazine in Dava Sobel's Article, ‘Remembering Henrietta Swan Leavitt’
Sky & Telescope’s Dec. 2021 issue features Lia Halloran alongside Dava Sobel while exploring the life and legacy of early 20th-century astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt.
Excerpt
“In the century since Henrietta Leavitt died, the observation that she first published in 1908, then elaborated in 1912, has achieved the status of an astrophysical law. Her quiet life has become the subject of books, stage plays, art exhibitions, poems, a doll, and at least one song. It was Leavitt who discovered a yardstick for gauging distances across space, enabling the first realistic appreciation of the size of the Milky Way, and, soon afterward, the breadth of the chasm separating our home galaxy from other island universes…”
