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Explain the term parallax. What is the relationship between a star’s distance from the sun and its parallax

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The star's apparent motion is called stellar parallax. There is a simple relationship between a star's distance and its parallax angle: d = 1/p. The distance d is measured in parsecs and the parallax angle p is measured in arcsecond.

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