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- initialism military slang
birth control glasses
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Examples
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Beatrice Tinsley had just given a talk at Princeton saying that BCGs were unreliable: while nearby BCGs were one kind of standard candle, the distant ones almost certainly had to be another kind.
A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010
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Beatrice Tinsley had just given a talk at Princeton saying that BCGs were unreliable: while nearby BCGs were one kind of standard candle, the distant ones almost certainly had to be another kind.
A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010
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Maybe instead they could identify clusters by finding the brightest cluster galaxies, BCGs, the same unpredictable galaxies that Jim had once hoped would be a good standard candle.
A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010
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Maybe instead they could identify clusters by finding the brightest cluster galaxies, BCGs, the same unpredictable galaxies that Jim had once hoped would be a good standard candle.
A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010
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Beatrice Tinsley had just given a talk at Princeton saying that BCGs were unreliable: while nearby BCGs were one kind of standard candle, the distant ones almost certainly had to be another kind.
A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010
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BCGs once and for all lost the case for being standard candles.
A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010
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Maybe instead they could identify clusters by finding the brightest cluster galaxies, BCGs, the same unpredictable galaxies that Jim had once hoped would be a good standard candle.
A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010
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BCGs once and for all lost the case for being standard candles.
A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010
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Beatrice Tinsley had just given a talk at Princeton saying that BCGs were unreliable: while nearby BCGs were one kind of standard candle, the distant ones almost certainly had to be another kind.
A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010
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BCGs once and for all lost the case for being standard candles.
A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010
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