Cepheid Cosmic Yardstick
A pulsing star's period tells you its true brightness, so you can tell how far away it is.
What is and is not to scale.
How this was made and sources
One HTML file: no libraries, no network requests. Every number below was read on the date shown, from the page named next to it.
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