Astronomers Are Baffled To Find That the Universe Is Expanding Too Fast; 'Not What We Expected' Astronomers routinely ...

Cepheid variables are an important rung on the cosmic distance ladder, a system astronomers use that builds one observation on another to draw logical conclusions about things much farther away than ...

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

He was bored with law and decided to go back to his studies in astronomy. In 1919 he began ... In 1924, he announced the discovery of a Cepheid, or variable star, in the Andromeda Nebulae.

He was bored with law and decided to go back to his studies in astronomy. In 1919 he began to work at Mt ... In 1924, he announced the discovery of a Cepheid, or variable star, in the Andromeda ...