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Brian Tung
This tutorial talks about how the distance to the stars was determined. It begins with the first attempt made by Aristarchus and the subsequent wrong answers until final understanding was reached by the scientific community.
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B. Tung, Double Vision: How we learned the distance to the stars (1999), <http://www.astronomycorner.net/games/parallax.html>.
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Tung, B. (1999). Double Vision: How we learned the distance to the stars. Retrieved April 25, 2024, from http://www.astronomycorner.net/games/parallax.html
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Tung, Brian. Double Vision: How we learned the distance to the stars. 1999. http://www.astronomycorner.net/games/parallax.html (accessed 25 April 2024).
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Tung, Brian. Double Vision: How we learned the distance to the stars. 1999. 25 Apr. 2024 <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 = {2024},
Number = {25 April 2024},
Year = {1999}
}
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