Ariella Serrano

Physics

26 August, 12:34

You discover a Cepheid variable star with a 30 day period in the Milky Way. Through careful monitoring for a few years with the Hubble Space Telescope, you determine that it has a parallax of 0.004 arcseconds. How distant is this Cepheid variable star in parsecs?

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