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Stargazing How do we know how bright a cepheid variable star is?
Most of us know what that we can judge the distance of an object such as a car headlight by how bright that headlight is. The things is we know how bright car headligjts are from 1 foot away so that seems pretty obvious. A Cepheid variables brightness is commonly used to measure the distance...- Nuff-sed
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