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October 26, 2016

Cepheids and Leavitt's Law

Dr. Vicky Scowcroft
Observatories Carnegie Institution for Science

Darwin 103
4:00 PM

Dr. Vicky Scowcroft of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science, will detail a class of pulsating stars, used as "Standard Candles" to measure distances in the Universe.

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