"A portrait of trailblazing astronomer Henrietta Leavitt and an illustrated exploration of the power of attention in scientific observation, artistic creation, and the making of meaning. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, has a diameter of about 100,000 light...
Anna Von Mertens is a visual artist and author of the newly published book, Attention Is Discovery: The Life and Legacy of Astronomer Henrietta Leavitt. The book is the culmination of Von Mertens’s nearly decade-long collaboration with the Harvard Plate...
How big is the universe? In the early twentieth century, scientists took sides. One held that the entire universe was contained in the Milky Way galaxy; their champion was the strong-willed astronomer Harlow Shapley. Another camp believed that the...
