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Ele Willoughby, PhD

It had not been obvious to tell whether a star was dim because it was less luminous, or whether it was merely further away. Swan Leavitt's discovery lets astronomers use Cepheids as "standard candles". They allow astronomers to determine distances to celestial objects & form the foundation of the Extragalactic Distance Scale.⁠

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