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ASP Astronomical Society of the Pacific Comprehensive Astronomy Exam

ASP — The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP), founded in 1889 and based in San Francisco, is a leading astronomy education and outreach organization; it does not administer a single standardized professional licensing exam, so this is an original comprehensive practice set designed to assess mastery of core astronomy concepts at the level covered in ASP educational programs, workshops, and amateur astronomy certification curricula.

53
Questions
90m
Time Limit
75.00%
To Pass
Question 1 of 53👑 VIP

A student measures the parallax angle of a nearby star and finds it to be 0.25 arcseconds. Using the standard parallax formula, what is the distance to this star in parsecs?

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