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What Causes Cepheid Variables to Vary in Brightness

Question 26

Question 26

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What causes Cepheid variables to vary in brightness?


A) They pulsate
B) Eclipses
C) Changes in nuclear energy generation rate
D) Obscuration by clouds of dust

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