Who first noticed that for Cepheid variable stars, there was a direct relation between the luminosity and the period of the variation in their brightness?

a. Henrietta Leavitt
b. Edwin Hubble
c. John Glenn
d. Carl Sagan
e. Annie Cannon


A

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