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By what method do we measure the distance to objects that are a few thousand light-years away?

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First, a dirty little secret: scientists don't actually measure astronomical distances in light years. Rather, they measure them in a unit called the Parsecs
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i believe the answer to your question is parallax or parsecs. im sorry im not very specific in this!

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