The Hipparcos data give us
A) parallaxes to the nearest galaxies.
B) parallaxes as small as 0.005".
C) an accurate distance to the Moon.
D) distances to about 100 billion stars, practically everything in the Milky Way Galaxy.
E) information on only the 6,000 brightest stars.
B
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