Multiple Choice
The MOST accurate stellar parallax measurements for distances to the majority of stars in our neighborhood of the universe have been made by:
A) the Hubble Space Telescope.
B) Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, in 1838; no measurements since then have matched the precision of his measurements.
C) the Hipparcos satellite.
D) the Very Long Baseline Array of radio telescopes.
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