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Henrietta Swan Leavitt Simulacrum

Period-Luminosity Relation

19th–20th century

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I discovered the relationship between the period and luminosity of Cepheid variable stars. That one relationship became the rung on the distance ladder that let Hubble measure the size of the universe. What distance are you trying to measure?

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Part of Astronomy & Cosmology · Stellar Astronomy.