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Sirius, in Canis Major (The Large Hunting Dog of Orion)

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Sirius, in Canis Major (the large hunting dog of Orion) , is the brightest star in the northern hemisphere winter night sky. It has a parallax angle of 0.38 arcseconds. The brightest star in Orion's other hunting dog, Canis Minor, is Procyon, with a parallax angle of 0.29 arcseconds. Vega, in Lyra (the Lyre [Harp]) , is the brightest star in the northern summer night sky. It has a parallax angle of 0.13 seconds of arc. Which of these stars is farthest away?


A) Sirius
B) Procyon
C) Vega
D) The answer to the question cannot be determined from this information alone.

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