standard lights

RR Lyrae variable stars and blue horizontal branch (BHB) stars have standard intrinsic visible-light intensities {standard lights}. Type-1a-supernova intrinsic brightness varies directly with time visible, so brighter lasts longer (galaxies have one every hundred years). Quasars have standard intrinsic ultraviolet-light intensities. Comparing observed brightness to intrinsic brightness measures object distance, because brightness decreases with distance squared.

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