Compact Bone. The next layer is made up of compact bone. It is a smooth but hard quality, with minimal gaps and spaces. This layer gives bones their white and solid appearance, and it is the part that you see when you look at a skeleton.
He used the inverse square law of light brightness on a particular type of variable star in those old star clusters. Some stars are very useful for finding distances to clusters and to other galaxies because they have a known luminosity that is large, so they can be seen from great distances away.ll of the RR Lyrae stars in a cluster have the same average apparent magnitude. In different clusters, the average apparent magnitude was different. This is because all RR Lyrae have about the same average absolute magnitude (=+0.6, or 49 solar luminosities).
If you know a star's apparent magnitude and distance, you can find the star's luminosity (see the table below). The luminosity is a quantity that depends on the star itself, not on how far away it is (it is an intrinsic property).