Hi. It is a pleasure to help. If you mean the distance from the earth to the stars, astronomers use a technique called parallax which is a way to infer the distance to a star based on triangulation. Astronomers use a unit called the light-year, which is the distance travelled by the light in one year. Since light travels at a speed of 300,000 km/s, in one year light leaves behind a distance of 9.4605284 × 1015 meters. Some stars are only a few light- years away. Others are very far away, in the limits of the observable universe. If the astronomer wants to measure the distance to a very far away star, then parallax is no longer useful. Other techniques and properties are employed such as the Cepheids, which are a very particular class of stars in which the period of variation in their brightness is related to their distances. So by measuring the period, astronomers are able to infer the distance.
Measuring distances to stars and to distant galaxies is one of the central problems in Astronomy. It is VERY important. Several research efforts are devoted to measuring distances. In fact, in the 1920's E. Hubble first measured the distance to other galaxies using cepheids. The Hubble Sapce Telescope still measures distances to distant galaxies using a variety of observational techniques.
If you mean the measurement of the radius of a star, astronomers do that by knowing the details of the cameras used to photograph the star and the known distance to it. Sometimes studying the properties of the light emitted by stars it is possible to infer its radius based on the theory of stellar evolution.
Prof. João Rodrigo Leão
Rio Grande Federal University - Brazil
Measure the distance from Earth to nearby stars.
Astronomers use a method called parallax to measure the distance to nearby stars. Astronomers can measure parallax by measuring the position of a nearby star with respect to the distant stars behind it. Then, they measure the same stars again six months later when the Earth is on the opposite side of its orbit.
The scientist used an astrolabe to find the altitude of the sun and stars.
They use the banana method
I have usually seen them quoted in kilometers.
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Measure the distance from Earth to nearby stars.
The use of stars in geodetic measurements has been replaced by GPS satellites.
They have to use standard units of measurements in their expirements, so they can commpare data
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They use a complicated kind of trigonometry, looking at the apparent distance, light, and other different factors to calculate it.
Scientist use extremely powerful telescopes and machines to measure the brightness of stars. If a planet were to pass in front of the star than the stars brightness may dip by 1/1000th of a percent. The telescopes are so powerful that they are able to measure this dip and thus allow scientist to detect exoplanets.
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Scientist use measuring to determine the effects of an action. They measure the property of the object, process or substance before the action and after. The difference in the two measurements reveals some information which they use to validate hypotheses.
Most scientists use the Metric system of units of measure, also called the Système international or SI system
Scientist use the same tools because, so their measurements will be the same.
To measure the distance of stars you have to measure by light years.