The Parallax Technique
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Credit: Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF; Robert Hurt, NASA.
Parallax technique determines distance by measuring the angle of apparent shift in an object\'s position, as seen from opposite sides of Earth\'s orbit around the Sun.
Provider: National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Image Source: https://public.nrao.edu/?post_type=release=8729
Curator: NRAO/AUI/NSF, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
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- Parallax Technique
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- Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF; Robert Hurt, NASA.
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- Lightyears
- Redshift
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- https://public.nrao.edu/?post_type=release=8729
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- Bandpass
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- Equinox
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- NRAO/AUI/NSF
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- https://public.nrao.edu
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- NRAO/AUI/NSF
- outreach@nrao.edu
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- Address
- 520 Edgemont Road
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- Charlottesville
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- Virginia
- Postal Code
- 22903
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
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- NRAO/AUI/NSF
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- nrao
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- https://public.nrao.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/nrao17df13b.jpg
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- 2018-05-14T12:51:23-04:00
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- 1.1
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