Luminosity Curve
The curve of luminosity of the first Cepheid variable star discovered by Edwin Hubble in the Andromeda Nebula, M31. Using this he could determine the nebula's distance. Hubble included this graph in his 19 February 1924 letter to Harlow Shapley.
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