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 January 16, 2021, from http://www.astronomycorner.net/games/parallax.html
Tung, Brian. Double Vision: How we learned the distance to the stars. 1999. http://www.astronomycorner.net/games/parallax.html (accessed 16 January 2021).
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