Photometric parallax

Photometric parallax is a means to infer the distances of stars using their colours and apparent brightnesses. It was used by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to discover the Virgo super star cluster.

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Photometric parallax

Photometric parallax is a means to infer the distances of stars using their colours and apparent brightnesses. It was used by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to discover the Virgo super star cluster.

Source: Wikipedia "Photometric parallax" · CC BY-SA 4.0

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