동아사이언스

여성 천문학자들

과학동아 1991년 11호

doubling the number known at the time.Her great moment came in 1912, when she was working at Harvard's observatory in Peru and studying the Magellanic Clouds, the large star collection lying outside our galaxy. All the stars in the clouds are at about the same distance from us, since the variation from point to point is small in comparison with the total distance.She studied the Cepheid ...