Timeline for Finding the distance to a distant star using standard candles
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| Mar 17, 2019 at 13:30 | vote | accept | Megan mars | ||
| Mar 16, 2019 at 15:29 | comment | added | Megan mars | so do we use standard candles like first we find the luminosity of a nearby cepheid and then once we find it we identify cepheids at a much farther distance and then we consider their luminosity to be same as the ones we found close by? thus determining the distance to the galaxy? | |
| Mar 16, 2019 at 11:59 | history | edited | user89220 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 16, 2019 at 11:50 | history | answered | user89220 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |