Hubble carried out the determination of the distance to the Andromeda "nebula" (which finally resolved the Curtis-Shapley debate on the nature of "spiral nebulae") by observing:
A) pulsars.
B) Cepheid variable stars.
C) the Doppler shift of stars in the "nebula."
D) the main sequence of stars in the "nebula."
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