Through these discoveries came her most important contribution to the field: the study of cepheid variable stars in the Magellenic Clouds -- the Milky Way's two companion galaxies. By intense ...

Cepheid, a large biotechnology company known for single-use tests for various diseases like strep throat, is laying off 635 Bay Area employees. The company announced the dramatic cuts in WARN ...

Leavitt's work with variable stars led to her most important contribution to the field: the cepheid variable period-luminosity relationship. By intense observation of a certain class of variable ...

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