Defenition of the word parsec
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Defenition of the word parsec
- The distance from which one arcsecond represents one astronomical unit. It equals to about 3.261633 light years.
- a unit of astronomical length based on the distance from Earth at which stellar parallax is 1 second of arc; equivalent to 3.262 light years
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