A distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud that is precise to one per cent

In the era of precision cosmology, it is essential to determine the Hubble constant empirically with an accuracy of one per cent or better 1 . At present, the uncertainty on this constant is dominated by the uncertainty in the calibration of the Cepheid period–luminosity relationship 2 , 3 (also kno...

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