Leavitt and Stars
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- 2. What was her job at Harvard College Observatory?
- 3. What is the closest star to earth?
- 6. What word do we use to describe the bending of light as a star races through our atmosphere and bounces and bumps through the different layers?
- 7. What are stars which brighten and dim periodically?
- 9. What law describes a relationship linking the luminosity of pulsating variable stars with their pulsation period?
- 10. What is a huge celestial body made mostly of hydrogen and helium?
- 11. What are large groupings of stars?
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- 1. What is a measure of the total amount of energy radiated by a star or other celestial object per second
- 4. Where was Henrietta Leavitt born?
- 5. What item on the moon is named after Leavitt to honor deaf men and women who have worked as astronomers?
- 8. What physical ailment did Leavitt suffer from for most of her adult life?