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  2. Light-year - Wikipedia

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    The largest unit for expressing distances across space at that time was the astronomical unit, equal to the radius of the Earth's orbit at 150 million kilometres (93 million miles). In those terms, trigonometric calculations based on 61 Cygni's parallax of 0.314 arcseconds, showed the distance to the star to be 660 000 astronomical units (9.9 ...

  3. Astronomical unit - Wikipedia

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    This is because the distance between Earth and the Sun is not fixed (it varies between 0.983 289 8912 and 1.016 710 3335 au) and, when Earth is closer to the Sun , the Sun's gravitational field is stronger and Earth is moving faster along its orbital path. As the metre is defined in terms of the second and the speed of light is constant for all ...

  4. Parsec - Wikipedia

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    where θ is the measured angle in arcseconds, Distance earth-sun is a constant (1 au or 1.5813 × 10 −5 ly). The calculated stellar distance will be in the same measurement unit as used in Distance earth-sun (e.g. if Distance earth-sun = 1 au , unit for Distance star is in astronomical units; if Distance earth-sun = 1.5813 × 10 −5 ly, unit ...

  5. Parallax in astronomy - Wikipedia

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    A parsec is the distance from the Sun to an astronomical object that has a parallax angle of one arcsecond (not to scale). The parsec (symbol: pc) is a unit of length used to measure the large distances to astronomical objects outside the Solar System, approximately equal to 3.26 light-years or 206,265 astronomical units (AU), i.e. 30.9 trillion kilometres (19.2 trillion miles).

  6. Stellar parallax - Wikipedia

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    The parsec (3.26 light-years) is defined as the distance for which the annual parallax is 1 arcsecond. Annual parallax is normally measured by observing the position of a star at different times of the year as Earth moves through its orbit. The angles involved in these calculations are very small and thus difficult to measure.

  7. History-making probe is about to make the closest-ever ... - AOL

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    The spacecraft will be so close that if the distance between Earth and the sun were the length of an American football field, the spacecraft would be about 4 yards from the end zone, according to ...

  8. Astronomical system of units - Wikipedia

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    The astronomical unit of length is now defined as exactly 149 597 870 700 meters. [4] It is approximately equal to the mean Earth–Sun distance. It was formerly defined as that length for which the Gaussian gravitational constant (k) takes the value 0.017 202 098 95 when the units of measurement are the astronomical units of length, mass and ...

  9. Scientists shocked by 1.5 million year age gap between two stars

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    The pair, located thousands of light years away, has a 1.5 million year old difference between their two ages. Pairs of stars are usually much the same age, being born like twins, researchers said ...