Multiple Choice
The MOST accurate stellar parallax measurements for distances to the majority of stars in Earth's neighborhood in the universe have been made by
A) the Hubble Space Telescope.
B) Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, in 1838; no measurements since then have matched the precision of his measurements.
C) the Gaia satellite.
D) the Very Long Baseline Array of radio telescopes.
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