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Title: Astronomical Parallax
Url: http://www.shodor.org/refdesk/Resources/Applications/AstronomicalParallax/index.php
Creator: David Joiner, The Shodor Education Foundation, Inc.
Contributor: none listed
Publisher: The Computational Science Education Reference Desk
Description: Parallax is the apparent displacement of a foreground object with respect to a background object caused by the movement of the observer. In plain words, nearby objects seem to shift more than distant objects when you move.
Format: text/html
Language: English
Subject: Astronomy
Keywords: none listed
Audience: Educator, Student
Education Level: Grades 10-12, Grades 7-9, Undergraduate
Resource Type: Text
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