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"Swan Song"
Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868–1921) was an American astronomer whose work quietly but profoundly reshaped our understanding of the universe. As a “computer” at Harvard College Observatory, she spent countless hours examining photographic plates of stars, and in doing so discovered a relationship between the brightness and period of Cepheid variable stars. This “Leavitt Law” became the cosmic yardstick that allowed astronomers like Hubble to measure the true scale of the Milky Way and the expansion of the universe. Though she worked in relative obscurity during her lifetime, her insight remains one of the cornerstones of modern cosmology.
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CREDITS for music used on in “Swan Song”:
"The Minstrel Boy" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
"Equatorial Complex " Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
"The Ice Giants" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
"Mana Two - Part 1" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
"Bleeping Demo " Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
"Chillin Hard " Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
"Gregorian Chant " Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
"Mana Two - Part 2" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
"Mana Two - Part 3" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
"Midnight Tale" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
"Night on the Docks" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
"Screen Saver" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
"Sergios Magic Dustbin" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
"The Ice Giants" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
"That Zen Moment" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
"Southern Gothic" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
"Sincerely" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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