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Individual M100 Cepheid

Object Name
Object NameA name or catalog number that astronomers use to identify an astronomical object.
M100
Release Date
October 26, 1994
Science Release
Hubble Space Telescope Measures Precise Distance to the Most Remote Galaxy Yet
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Credits
Science Release Key Project Team: Sandra Faber, Garth Illingworth & Dan Kelson (Univ. of California, Santa Cruz), Laura Ferrarese & Holland Ford (Space Telescope Science Institute), Wendy Freedman, John Graham, Robert Hill & Randy Phelps (Carnegie Institution of Washington), James Gunn (Princeton University), John Hoessel & Mingsheng Han (University of Wisconsin), John Huchra (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), Shaun Hughes (Royal Greenwich Observatory), Robert Kennicutt, Paul Harding, Anne Turner & Fabio Bresolin (Univ. of Arizona), Barry Madore & Nancy Silbermann (JPL, Caltech), Jeremy Mould (Mt. Stromlo, Australian National University), Abhijit Saha (Space Telescope Science Institute), and Peter Stetson (Dominion Astrophysical Observatory).

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