Why Did It Take Astronomers Until 1838 to Measure the Parallax

question 30

Multiple Choice

Why did it take astronomers until 1838 to measure the parallax of the stars?

• A) because most stars are too faint to see without a good telescope
• B) because the stars are so far away that their annual shift of position in the sky is too small to see without a good telescope
• C) because detecting parallax requires measuring a spectrum, which only became possible in the 1830's
• D) because cepheid variable stars had not been discovered earlier
• E) because no one before then could conceive of the Earth moving around the Sun

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