How do astronomers determine the distance to stars that are farther than 100 parsecs away?
A) measuring the shift of the stellar parallax
B) estimating a star's spectral type and comparing it to the spectroscopic parallax
C) subtracting absolute from apparent magnitudes
D) using trigonometry in the triangulation method
E) measuring the proper motion of a star
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