Multiple Choice
About how many stars has the Hipparcos mission given us accurate distance data on?
A) about 3,000, about half of what you can see with the naked eye alone
B) over 6000, the visible naked eye stars and some seen in binoculars
C) 60,000, those within about 100 light-years of us
D) a million, those with parallaxes of .005" or larger
E) over 100 billion, almost every star in the galaxy
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