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    What Is Parallax
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What Is Parallax

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What is parallax?


A) distance to an object, measured in parsecs
B) angle taken up by the size (e.g., diameter) of an object, as seen by an observer
C) shift in angular position of an object as it moves in space
D) apparent shift in position of an object as the observer moves

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