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Cole AA. ASTRONOMY: The Distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud. Science. 2000;289(5482):1149-50doi: 10.1126/science.289.5482.1149.
Cole, A. A. (2000). ASTRONOMY: The Distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud. Science (New York, N.Y.), 289(5482), 1149-50. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.289.5482.1149
Cole, A A. "ASTRONOMY: The Distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud." Science (New York, N.Y.) vol. 289,5482 (2000): 1149-50. doi: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.289.5482.1149
Cole AA. ASTRONOMY: The Distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud. Science. 2000 Aug 18;289(5482):1149-50. doi: 10.1126/science.289.5482.1149. PMID: 17833402.
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Science. 2000 Aug 18;289(5482):1149-50. doi: 10.1126/science.289.5482.1149.

ASTRONOMY: The Distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Science (New York, N.Y.)

A A Cole

PMID: 17833402 DOI: 10.1126/science.289.5482.1149

Abstract

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite of the Milky Way, is an important yardstick by which most intergalactic distances are measured. But as Cole explains in this Perspective, how far away the LMC is remains a matter of dispute, with far reaching implications in cosmology. But observations of Cepheids and of eclipsing binaries, two types of stars that allow absolute luminosity and thus absolute distances to be determined, are promising to resolve this important issue in the not too distant future.

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