What Is the Brightest Standard Candle, and Therefore the One

question 153

Multiple Choice

What is the brightest standard candle, and therefore the one that is visible to the greatest distance, found so far?

• A) Type Ia supernovae
• B) brightest H II regions in each galaxy
• C) brightest globular cluster of each galaxy
• D) Cepheid variables

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