Robert McNeesAstronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt was born OTD in 1868.
She established the period-luminosity relation for Cepheid variable stars, an essential tool for understanding the scale of our Universe.
Image: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
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