Edward Pigott10 September 1784
Edward Pigott detects the variability of Eta Aquilae, the first known representative of the class of Classical Cepheid variables
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Edward Pigott detects the variability of Eta Aquilae, the first known representative of the class of Classical Cepheid variables
A relationship between the period and luminosity for classical Cepheids is discovered in 1908 by Henrietta Swan Leavitt in an investigation of thousands of variable stars in the Magellanic Clouds
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