(Nanowerk News) In 1838, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel won the race to measure the first distance to a star other than our Sun via the trigonometric parallax – setting the first scale of the Universe.
One of the most common questions I hear regards how we determine distances to the stars — a question not so easily answered by waving my arms around in the dark. Many folks think that if a star ...
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