The Work Of Henrietta Leavitt
Around 20th century, Henrietta Leavitt developed the standard “candle technique” to measure distance. Then in the 1920’s, Edwin Hubble used the technique to find the distance of stars in Andromeda Galaxy which is the nearest largest galaxy to our galaxy.
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