Episode 3: How did a 1912 circular open up our Universe?

Update: 2022-09-02

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The vastness of space was unfathomable until a pioneer of "Big Data" found a regularity in the way some stars change brightness, a discovery which has ever since allowed us to precisely measure distances to stars throughout the Milky Way and beyond.

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