Question

What is the distance to a star whose parallex is 0.1 sec?

Answer 1

Answer:

$30.86\times 10^{13} km$

Explanation:

Given the parallex of the star is 0.1 sec.

The distance is inversely related with the parallex of the star. Mathematically,

$d=\frac{1}{P}$

Here, d is the distance to a star which is measured in parsecs, and P is the parallex which is measured in arc seconds.

Now,

$d=\frac{1}{0.1}\\d=10 parsec$

And also know that,

$1 parsec=3.086\times 10^{13} km$

Therefore the distance of the star  is $30.86\times 10^{13} km$ away.