Parallax of a nearby star is used to estimate its
A) surface temperature.
B) distance from Earth.
C) apparent magnitude.
D) physical size or diameter.
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Q12: What is parallax?
A) distance to an object,
Q13: How far away is the nearest star
Q14: The MOST straightforward way to determine the
Q15: Stellar parallax appears because
A) Earth rotates about
Q16: In what fundamental way do humans (and
Q18: Stellar parallax is the
A) inferred change in
Q19: How far away is the nearest star
Q20: How many stars (other than the Sun)
Q21: The star Proxima Centauri has a parallax
Q22: Suppose astronomers want to measure the distance
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