The Period-Luminosity Relationship for Cepheid Variable Stars,relating Variability to Absolute

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Multiple Choice

The period-luminosity relationship for Cepheid variable stars,relating variability to absolute overall brightness,thereby providing identifiable beacons throughout our local space,was discovered by:

• A) Harlow Shapley.
• B) Henrietta Leavitt.
• C) Edwin Hubble.
• D) Sir Isaac Newton.

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