Cepheids
- plural of Cepheid.
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Stars like cepheids, which pulsate, getting bigger and smaller, brighter and dimmer.
From Scientific American • Jun. 22, 2023
Astronomers, including Ejnar Hertzsprung and Harvard’s Harlow Shapley, immediately saw the potential of the new technique; they and many others set to work exploring more distant reaches of space using cepheids as signposts.
From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016
The most distant known variable stars are all cepheids, with some about 60 million light-years away.
From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016
Figure 19.14 displays the ranges of periods and luminosities for both the cepheids and the RR Lyrae stars.
From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016
As we will see, this work still continues, as the Hubble Space Telescope and other modern instruments try to identify and measure individual cepheids in galaxies farther and farther away.
From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016
