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How do astronomers use Cepheid variables to measure distances?

Richard Lynch, Essex Junction, Vermont
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The simple answer is that the intrinsic brightness of these variable stars is strongly tied to their period. This is the famous period-luminosity relationship discovered by Henrietta Leavitt more than a century ago.

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