Question
Compare the brightness of the stars Sirius B and Sun using the data given in Table 1.3 of Unit 1.
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To correct for distance they measure a star’s absolute magnitude or how bright it would appear at a set distance of 32.6 light years or 10 parsecs. This seemingly odd number was chosen because a parsec is equal to 3.26 light years, the distance at which a celestial object appears to shift 1 arc second (a tiny amount!) against the background stars as viewed from either end of Earth’s
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