One parsec is equal to 19,200,000,000,000 miles. Parsecs are used to calculate astronomical distances where the number of miles is enormous and too difficult to use in calculations.
PC in astronomy stands for parsec....srry had a question on a quiz w/ this
No. The distance light travels in a year is called a light-year. A parsec is the distance at which a star (or other object) would have a yearly parallax of 1 arc-second, and it is equal to about 3.26 light-years.
That's a "parsec". It's the distance, measured perpendicular to the ecliptic plane, of an object that exhibits a parallax against the distant background stars of one arc second in six months.
About 206,000 given that 1 parsec is 3.06 x 1013 km and 1 AU is 149.6 x 106 km __________________ 1 Astronomical Unit (AU) is the average distance from the Sun to the Earth, about 150 million kilometers or 93 million miles (approximately). We use AU when we talk about distances between objects WITHIN the solar system. One "parsec", or "parallax-second of arc", is the distance that an object would be (from Earth) if we measure a one second of arc difference in the relative direction of a "nearby" object, measured from one side of the Earth's orbit to the other. That gives us a baseline distance of 2 AU, about 300 million km or 186 million miles. You can calculate the distance of one parsec using trigonometry; the base of the triangle is 2AU, and the opposite angle is 1 second of arc (1/3600th of a degree). Roughly, one parsec is about 3.26 light years. We use parsecs to measure distance between stars, or between objects in the galaxy.
1 Parsec = 3.26163626 light years
1 parsec = 19,173,510,995,000 miles.
There are 19 trillion miles (31 trillion kilometres) in a parsec, which is an astromical measurement.
About 19 trillion miles.
A light year is the distance that light will travel in one year. A parsec is short for parallax second, which is also a measure of distance.Answer 1 Parsec = 3.26163626 light years 1 light year = 0.30659458 Parsecs
1 parsec = 3.26 light years = 19,164,611,570,000 miles (rounded) 1 mile = 0.00000000000005218 parsec (rounded)
3.08568025 × 1013 kilometers 3.08568025 × 1013 kilometers
PC in astronomy stands for parsec....srry had a question on a quiz w/ this
astronomy The parsec is a popular measure because it is an easy measurement to make. One only has to make visual sighting or photographic measurements and determine angel of parallax. For a complete discussion on the definition of parsec see link.
The most common is the light year, which is the distance that a beam of light will travel in one year, and is approximately 10 trillion kilometres (or about 6 trillion miles).Another unit of inter-stellar measurement is the parsec. One parsec is equal to about 3.26 light years (31 trillion kilometres, or 19 trillion miles).
Astronomy. It is a measure of distance in space and is equal to 19.17 trillion miles.
3.26156 light-years or 1.9174×1013 miles according to Wikipedia
No. The distance light travels in a year is called a light-year. A parsec is the distance at which a star (or other object) would have a yearly parallax of 1 arc-second, and it is equal to about 3.26 light-years.