Multiple Choice
If an astronaut were to look back from his spacecraft toward the solar system and measure that the angle between Earth and the Sun was 1 arcsecond, how far from the un would the astronaut be? (Assume that the Earth-Sun line is at right angles to your line of sight.)
A) 1 Mpc
B) 1 au
C) 1 pc
D) 1 ly
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