Multiple Choice
The Hipparcos data give us
A) parallaxes to the nearest galaxies.
B) parallaxes as small as 0.005".
C) information on only the 6,000 brightest stars.
D) distances to about 100 billion stars, practically everything in the Milky Way Galaxy.
E) an accurate distance to the Moon.
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