The annual parallax of a star is the angle subtended at the star by the radius of the Earth’s orbit, one astronomical unit, seen perpendicular to the line of sight; it is the semi-major axis of the yearly ellipse the star appears to trace. The parsec () is the distance at which one astronomical unit subtends one second of arc:
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什么是 Annual parallax, parsec?
又称: annual parallax · parsec