This tutorial describes how the distance to the stars was determined, and embeds a set of activities highlighting astrometry. It begins with the first attempt made by Aristarchus and ends with the results of the Hipparcos Satellite.
Tung, B. (1999). Double Vision: How we learned the distance to the stars. Retrieved May 20, 2013, from http://www.astronomycorner.net/games/parallax.html
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Author = "Brian Tung",
Title = {Double Vision: How we learned the distance to the stars},
Volume = {2013},
Number = {20 May 2013},
Year = {1999}
}
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