The Universe is absolutely huge and it’s really amazing that we’re able to look up from this tiny, little planet and actually measure the distance to things which are so incredibly far away. But how do we measure the distance to the stars?
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I am listening to a Chicago radio station online and I had to mute Pink Floyd’s “Us and Them” so I could listen to this video.
If you do not get the coincidence/irony?, that song is on their album “The Dark Side of the Moon.”
I guess it would have been cooler if I had to mute “Interstellar Overdrive”
There’s a lot of assumptions in these supposedly foolproof methods. I’m not too sure how “standard” a “standard candle” is, nor do I see how you can use paralax to be able to measure how far the tree is if you don’t know how far the mountain is either, or if you aren’t sure how much the mountain itself has moved.
But I’m not an astrophysicist.