Great Heroes and Discoveries of Astronomy. Episode 4, The Heroic Discovery of Other Galaxies

Great Heroes and Discoveries of Astronomy Episode 4, The Heroic Discovery of Other Galaxies Episode 4, The Heroic Discovery of Other Galaxies.

Streaming video - 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?

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Subjects
Astronomy.
Technology.
History, Modern.
Computer science.
Physics.
Education films.
Genres
Education films
Published
[San Francisco, California, USA] : The Great Courses 2021.
2022.
Language
English
Other Authors
The Great Courses (film director), Emily Levesque (actor)
Online Access
A Kanopy streaming video
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Physical Description
1 online resource (streaming video file) (25 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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