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c2013, Juvenile, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Henrietta Swan Leavitt changed the course of astronomy when she was just twenty-five years old. Henrietta spent years measuring photographs of stars. Her discovery that certain stars had a fixed pattern to their changes in brightness made it possible for astronomers to measure greater stellar distances, leading to our present understanding of the size of the universe.
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c2013., Juvenile, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Henrietta Swan Leavitt changed the course of astronomy when she was just twenty-five years old. Henrietta spent years measuring photographs of stars. Her discovery that certain stars had a fixed pattern to their changes in brightness made it possible for astronomers to measure greater stellar distances, leading to our present understanding of the size of the universe.
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c2003., Chelsea House Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Women in science (Chelsea House Publishers)Summary Note: Profiles a Vassar professor who was one of the most famous astronomers in the United States at the end of the nineteenth century and whose central message to her students was "never cease to wonder."
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Juvenile Call No: B Sea Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Blastoff! readers. Women leading the waySummary Note: "Relevant images match informative text in this introduction to Sara Seager. Intended for students in kindergarten through third grade."--