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The most distant stars for which we can measure distances with stellar parallax are ______ of light-years away. (Note: Assume the parallax measurements are those possible with the GAIA spacecraft.) hundreds of millions a few tens hundreds millions tens of thousands
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Explanation: The smaller the parallax, the more distant the star
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