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Most stars have such small parallax shifts that accurate measurement is always possible?
On the contrary, if the parallax angle is too small, it can't be measured accurately.
Do acute angles measure 180 degrees?
no, they're 90 degrees or less. a way to remember is aCUTE angle. a small angle is sorta cute right?
Is obtuse angles small or large?
It depends on your definition of small and large. Obtuse angles are ones that are more than 90 degrees and acute angles are less than 90 degrees. If you forgive the bad graphics.. Obtuse: \_ Acute: /_
What is the most reasonable unit of measure for a small can of juice?
You can use cups to measure a small can of juice.
How do you use a protractor to measure quadrilateral angles?
Line up the vertex, then if it is an acute angle use the small number, obtuse use the big number, next all you have to do is bring your finger up to where the angle line is and see what number, big or small it lines up with on the protractor!
Why can't the parallax effect be used to measure distances to other galaxies?
The parallax angle of such distant objects is way too small to be measured. In general, the farther away an object, the smaller is its parallax angle.
Why were ancient people unable to detect stellar parallax?
they couldn't measure small angles
Why can't astronomer measure the parallax of a star that is a million lights away?
The farther the object, the smaller its parallax. In this case, the parallax is about 1/300,000 of an arc-second (and an arc-second is 1/3600 of a degree) - way too small to measure. Perhaps you will eventually find a way to measure smaller parallax angles.
Why were early astronomers unable to detect stellar parallax?
Pressumably, they didn't have the high-precision devices required to measure those angles. You must consider that we are talking about extremely small angles - even the closest star has a parallax of less than one arc-second (1/3600 of a degree).
If a star's parallax angle is too small to measure what can you conclude about the star's distance from earth?
It means that the distance is greater than a certain amount - depending on how precisely you can measure the parallax.
Parallax would be harder to measure if?
A parallax is hard to measure if it is very small - and this happens when the corresponding object is very far away.
Why can't astronomers measure the parallax of a star that's a million light years away?
At larger distance, the parallax becomes smaller, and therefore harder to measure. Even the closest star (Toliman) has a parallax of less than one arc-second (1/3600 of a degree), which is difficult to measure. Stars that are farther away have a much smaller parallax.
Considering that the more distant an object is the smaller the angle it will make why would parallax measurements be better suited for stars than for galaxies?
At larger distance, the parallax becomes smaller, and therefore harder to measure. Even the closest star (Toliman) has a parallax of less than one arc-second (1/3600 of a degree), which is difficult to measure. Stars that are farther away have a much smaller parallax.
If a star's parallax angle is too small to measure what can you conclude about the star's distance from the earth?
It means that the distance is greater than a certain amount - depending on how precisely you can measure the parallax.
Is it true or false astronomers have calculated the parallax angles of millions of stars?
The answer is: yes, just about, maybe. Astronomers had catalogued over 2 million stars with parallax values. However many of the values are estimates and some of the angles are very small.
Why can parallax only be used to measure distance to star that are relatively close to earth?
At farther distances, the parallax becomes too small to measure accurately. At a distance of 1 parsec, a star would have a parallax of 1 second (1/3600 of a degree). (The closest star, Toliman, is a little farther than that.) At a distance of 100 parsecs, the parallax is only 1/100 of a second.
If a star's parallax angle is too small to measure what can you conclude about the stars distance from earth?
You can conclude that it is farther than a certain distance. How much this distance is depends, of course, on how accurately the parallax angle can be measured.
