In 2013,the European Space Agency launched the Gaia mission,which will measure parallax angles down to 10-⁵ arcseconds.What distance does this correspond to?
A) 10-⁵ pc
B) 10⁵ light-years
C) 100 kpc
D) 200 kpc
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