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- Sun Apr 26, 2020 9:29 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Edwin Hubble Discovers the Universe (2020 Apr 26)
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Re: APOD: Edwin Hubble Discovers the Universe (2020 Apr 26)
Yes, it’s quite difficult to tell whether a star is bright and far away or dim and close, since the two appearances would be similar Henrietta Leavitt was the first to solve this problem. She was studying variable stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. Every star t...