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What unit of distance would you use to measure the distance between two stars?
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∙ 14y ago
Light Years.
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What unit would you use to measure the distances from stars?
To measure the distance of stars you have to measure by light years.
What two pieces of information would you need in order to measure the masses of stars in an eclipsing binary system?
the time between eclipses and the average distance between the stars
What units are for distance between stars?
The correct unit to describe the distance between stars is the "light year", the distance a photon of light would travel (through a vacuum) in a year.
What would you use to measure the distance between something?
the measurer
How would you measure the distance between Omaha and Nebraska?
The correct answer would be 40.44.
What is the unit to measure the distance between our solar system and other stars?
Light years, are basically how far would does light travel, at roughly 186,000 miles a second, if it were to go for a year.
What would you use to measure the distance between Maine and Florida?
you would use kilometers.
Why do scientist measure light years for stars?
Scientists measure light from star in light years because almost every other units would be so small compared to the distance involved between stars. in fact the nearest star (other then the sun) is 24689699219682.054 miles or 39734219301000 km.
What would you use to measure the distance between the lines marked on a candle?
A ruler
When do you use kilometers to measure?
Km is used for long distances. As the distance between two cities.
Do scientists measure a stars distance from earth in meters?
No, they are much too far away, and you would have a number too large to be usable.
What metric units would you use to measure the distance between you and the stop light?
Meters
