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d. They are so far away that we ca not measure the apparent shift against the background stars. You need a significant distance between the two lower points of the triangle to be able to triangulate properly. But Earth´s orbit provides only...
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The answer is that it's 5 parsecs away, (which is the same as saying that it's a little over 16 ...
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In astronomy, parallax (sometimes called “annual parallax”) means—specifically—the apparent angular displacement of a star against the background of much more distant stars, as seen by an observer on Earth moving in orbit around the Sun. Th...
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Actually yes, it would. And the reason is simply that you'd have a much larger baseline (the diameter of Plutos orbit as opposed to the diameter of Earths orbit) from which to measure. Doug
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No it only works out to a certain distance. Beyond this you move in to the field of red shifting measurement.
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Well it's pretty simple, you know what a parallax is, as you experience it all the time. Like your in the car, and your moving... you can see the stationary objects closer to you seem to be moving faster than the objects further away. The a...
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As Earth orbits the Sun individual stars seem to move their position against the celestial background. The nearer a star is to is, the greatest that apparent move is. That apparent change in the stars position is known as its parallax. A st...
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The earth to sun distance was first estimated by a dude named Aristarchus about 2300 years ago. Parallax was the first method used to gage the distance to other stars. It is arguably the most reliable since it relies on well known and accep...
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