Great Heroes and Discoveries of Astronomy. Episode 4, The Heroic Discovery of Other Galaxies.
Material type: FilmPublisher number: 13413056 | KanopyPublisher: The Great Courses, 2021Publisher: [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2022Description: 1 online resource (streaming video file) (25 minutes): digital, .flv file, soundContent type:- two-dimensional moving image
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Film
In Process Record.
Emily Levesque
Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2021.
How did Henrietta Swan Leavitt, the prolific discoverer of variable stars, make sense of "Cepheid variables"? How did she calculate the relationship between their periods and their true luminosities? How did Edwin Hubble use Leavitt's work (known as the Leavitt law) to measure the distance to the Great Andromeda Nebula in the 1920s?
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
In English