{"id":236825,"date":"2023-04-08T19:20:03","date_gmt":"2023-04-08T13:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=236825"},"modified":"2023-04-10T13:38:26","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T08:08:26","slug":"a-new-measurement-could-change-understanding-of-the-universe-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-new-measurement-could-change-understanding-of-the-universe-study\/","title":{"rendered":"A new measurement could change understanding of the Universe: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cA new measurement could change understanding of the Universe: Study\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>ANI <\/b>on <b>8th April 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A recent study carried out by the researchers was able to achieve the most accurate calibration of Cepheid stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What are Cepheid Stars?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cepheid Star i<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">s a type of variable star which brightens and dims periodically.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Note: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Variable stars are essentially stars that experience fluctuations in their brightness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Named after:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cepheid variables are named for the first known example of the type, the star Delta Cephei, discovered to be variable in 1874.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Characteristics: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cepheids stars are a special type of variable star in that they are hot and massive \u2013 five to twenty times as much mass as our Sun \u2013 and are known for their tendency to pulsate radially and vary in both diameter and temperature.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Cepheid star&#8217;s period (how often it pulsates) is directly related to its luminosity or brightness. They have luminosities 500-30,000 times greater than that of the Sun.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Significance:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Cepheid variables are powerful tools in astronomy. They were an early stepping stone in the establishment of the cosmic distance ladder that now enables astronomers to estimate distances to objects hundreds, thousands, millions and billions of light-years away.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cA new measurement could change understanding of the Universe: Study\u201d published in ANI on 8th April 2023 What is the News? A recent study carried out by the researchers was able to achieve the most accurate calibration of Cepheid stars. What are Cepheid Stars? Cepheid Star is&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-new-measurement-could-change-understanding-of-the-universe-study\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A new measurement could change understanding of the Universe: Study<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[11380,11387],"class_list":["post-236825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-ani","tag-cepheid-star","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}