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The articulated distance ladder

Nature Astronomy volume 1, pages 739–740 (2017)Cite this article

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How do you build a (distance) ladder from the closest stars to the far-away supernovae and all the way back to the last scattering surface of the Universe? Jeremy Mould summarizes some of the highlights of the Stellar Populations and the Distance Scale conference.

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Mould, J. The articulated distance ladder. Nat Astron 1, 739–740 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-017-0313-z

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