Cepheids as Cosmology Tools
This graph illustrates the Cepheid period-luminosity relationship, used to calculate the size, age and expansion rate of the universe. The data shown are from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope which has made the most precise measurements yet.
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PIA15819
Date Created
October 3, 2012
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JPL
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