I was just wondering how i could find the distance between earth and an object in space, i have heard of parallax formula but i am not quite positive on how it works.
Any help or explanation would be greatly appreciated!
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I was just wondering how i could find the distance between earth and an object in space, i have heard of parallax formula but i am not quite positive on how it works.
Any help or explanation would be greatly appreciated!
Measuring the distance of a star via the parallax is actually triangulation.
It goes a bit like this:
Yet, CalSpace reports that this method only works when the stars are <500 ly away.
This video of the Khan Academy explains how this works:
Parallax in Observing Stars - YouTube
Source:
Methods of Observational Astronomy
Thanks for the help it was very useful
It's supposed to be d=mc2 where 'd' is the velocity of distance.![]()
Not my equation, no...
-'m' is Mustard
-'c' is Cheese.
Since c is squared, you have another 'c' which is Cut.
But here's a tip: Finding the square root won't cut it.
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