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THE establishment of the scale of distances in the extragalactic universe rests primarily on the determinations of the distances of the nearest galaxies. These distances have been obtained primarily from a comparison of apparent magnitudes of variable stars or of Population II giants with the known absolute magnitudes of such objects measured in our Galaxy.
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HODGE, P. The Extragalactic Distance Scale. Nature 186, 622 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/186622a0
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