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    What Is the Most Accurate Way to Determine the Distance
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What Is the Most Accurate Way to Determine the Distance

Question 22

Question 22

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What is the most accurate way to determine the distance to a very distant irregular galaxy?


A) using Cepheid variables
B) using a white-dwarf supernova as a standard candle
C) main sequence fitting
D) Hubble's law

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