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Ted: Ted Ed: Light Seconds, Light Years, Light Centuries: Measure Extreme Dist

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Yuan-Sen Ting shows us how trigonometric parallaxes, standard candles and more help us determine the distance of objects several billion light years away from Earth. [5:29]

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measuring space, ted ed: light seconds, light years, light centuries: measure extreme distances, measuring distance in space
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