Multiple Choice
A standard candle is an object with a known luminosity, or, equivalently, a known absolute magnitude. To obtain the distance to the object one still has to use:
A) Kepler's third law.
B) the inverse-square law.
C) the distance modulus equation.
D) the Hubble law.
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