Multiple Choice
Who first determined that the energy/s emitted by (luminosity of) Cepheid variable stars is larger the longer their period of variation is
A) Henrietta Leavitt
B) Edwin Hubble
C) John Glenn
D) Carl Sagan
E) Harlow Shapley
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