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Hadassah Bradley
10 August, 18:11
Parallax can be used to measure a star's
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Clayton Key
10 August, 20:32
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A star's parallax can be used to measure its distance,
but only if the star is close enough to us.
The nearest objects have the greatest parallax. The farther
an object is from us, the smaller its parallax is. Eventually
you reach objects whose parallax is too small to measure.
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