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Who was Henrietta Swan Leavitt's contemporary and used her discovery?

  • Edwin Hubble

  • Isaac Newton

  • Galileo Galilei

  • Albert Einstein

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Edwin Hubble was a contemporary of Henrietta Swan Leavitt and used her discovery to calculate the distance to other galaxies. Leavitt discovered that the period of a Cepheid variable star is related to its luminosity. Hubble used this relationship to measure the distances to other galaxies and showed that the universe is expanding.
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The Stellar Saga: Unraveling Henrietta Swan Leavitt's Cosmic Legacy

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