JOURNAL ARTICLE

Hubble’s Eureka Moment.

  • Published In: Sky & Telescope, 2023, v. 146, n. 3. P. 26 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Tosteson, Dave 3 of 3

Abstract

Homing in on M31-V1 In a tribute to the legendary man and his observations of this star, in late 2010 NASA planned to point the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) at M31's famous Cepheid, M31-V1 (officially cataloged as M31 V0619). Henrietta Swan Leavitt, working at the Harvard College Observatory, published the period-luminosity relation based on her studies of nearly 1,800 Cepheid variables in the Small Magellanic Cloud in 1908. FEATURES In October 1923, Edwin Hubble photographed a star in the Andromeda Galaxy. [Extracted from the article]

Additional Information

  • Source:Sky & Telescope. 2023/09, Vol. 146, Issue 3, p26
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:History
  • Publication Date:2023
  • ISSN:0037-6604
  • Accession Number:164233744
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