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Quando usar Stellar Parallax 3D Explorer

Use this explorer when you want to see how the nearest stars distances are measured directly, and skip it when you want brightness-based distances or motion redshift.

  • Classroom demos of parallax and the parsec
  • Showing why closer stars shift more against the background
  • Introducing the first rung of the cosmic distance ladder

This is an educational visualization with a hugely exaggerated parallax angle, not to scale.


Paralaxe estelar: numeros principais

Numeros principais da paralaxe estelar em um painel: Stellar Parallax 3D Explorer lista 1 parsec = 3.26 anos-luz, 61 Cygni de Bessel 0.314 arcsec, Proxima 0.7685 e todas as paralaxes estelares abaixo de 1 arcsec.

Compare os numeros principais da paralaxe estelar: o parsec, a primeira paralaxe medida, Proxima e o limite do arco-segundo.
Paralaxe estelar: o parsec, a primeira medicao, Proxima e o limite.
QuantidadeValor
1 parsec3,26 anos-luz (1 UA equivale a 1 arco-segundo)
Primeira paralaxe (Bessel, 1838)61 Cygni, 0,314 arco-segundos
Paralaxe de Proxima Centauri0,7685 arco-segundos
Todas as paralaxes estelaresmenos de 1 arco-segundo

Walk the controls in the step-by-step guide, or compare options in vs alternatives. Open the Stellar Parallax 3D Explorer.

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