The Hipparcos Data Give Us

question 103

Multiple Choice

The Hipparcos data give us

• A) parallaxes to the nearest galaxies.
• B) parallaxes as small as 0.005".
• C) information on only the 6,000 brightest stars.
• D) distances to about 100 billion stars, practically everything in the Milky Way Galaxy.
• E) an accurate distance to the Moon.

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