ISSN:
1476-4687
Source:
Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
Notes:
[Auszug] The distance to the Virgo cluster of galaxies, a primary rung on the ladder to establishing the distance scale of the Universe, 14.9 ± 1.2 Mpc, has been determined through ground-based observations of Cepheid variables in NGC4571. This agrees very well with other modern distance estimates, ...
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/371385a0
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