Large Magellanic Cloud

Its distance was pinned to 1% in 2019 using eclipsing binary stars.

Distance is one rung of the cosmic distance ladder. Drawn schematically.

Sources

1. Pietrzyński et al. 2019, LMC distance 49.6 kpc, Nature 567:200

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