My God, It’s Full of Stars: An Animated Serenade to Hubble and Our Human Hunger to Know the Universe

“…so brutal and alive it seemed to comprehend us back.”

This is the second of nine installments in the 2021/2022 animated season of The Universe in Verse — a celebration of the wonder of reality through stories of science winged with poetry, in collaboration with On Being. Here is Chapter 1.

THE ANIMATED UNIVERSE IN VERSE: CHAPTER TWOHenrietta Swan Leavitt

In 1908, Henrietta Swan Leavitt — one of the women known as the Harvard Computers, who changed our understanding of the universe long befor...