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If a star has no measurable parallax, what can you infer?.

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If you can't measure the parallax that means that the star is far far away, beyond all possible reach of humanity with its current technology. The closer the star is the greater the parallax, so you either get a bigger, more powerful telescope, or you just accept that it's too far away to be measured at all. Eventually the technology will develop enough to measure it.
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