At the Harvard College Observatory in years around 1900, women were hired to make measurements of astronomical data and do ...

In commemoration of Edwin Hubble's discovery of a Cepheid variable class star, called V1, in the neighboring Andromeda galaxy 100 years ago, astronomers partnered with the American Association of ...

Cepheid variables like Polaris are crucial ... between their brightness and pulsation period. John Monnier, an astronomy professor at the University of Michigan, expressed plans to continue ...