Stellar parallax and measuring distance

Have you ever travelled down a road in a car and looked at mountains or hills in the distance? If you have, you’ve probably noticed that while nearby trees quickly fly past the window, the mountains move much slower, and in the far distance the Moon and stars don’t seem to move at all. This is because of a phenomenon called "parallax".

Chapters:
0:00 Example of parallax
0:41 Stellar parallax
1:04 Measuring distance using parallax

Video animation: Alice Hopkinson
Narration: Sarah Ragan

[quickfoods]

Explained so easily thanks so much 😍👍🏻

[davidorta]

Best video I've found so far on parallax - Thank you people!

[Ash-hlkm]

Fantastic explanation! very easy to follow and straight to the point. The visuals were also great

[yensmith]

Thank you so much for this! got straight to the point, unlike other videos which were very long and complicated

[claudioricardoshow]

Great! The beste short and easy explanatory video I found.

[yesserlabidi]

BEST EXPLANATION OF PARRALAX IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE THANK YOU !!! SIMPLE AND ACCURATE !

[johnsmith-hquq]

Thank you for describing paralax. It was easy to understand from your illustration about looking out the window of a moving car.

[World_Theory]

Behold! Someone who cuts to the chase. Good video.

[livaastros]

How can we measure the parallax angle?

[rickyofficial]

quick, short, sweet and perfectly explained

[ChiNguyen-bckt]

Thank you! Very easy to understand and save me a lot of time! <3

[mtzmechengr]

What about the movement of the star during those 6 months? Is that taken into account?

[silentblackhole]

What a great explanation. So clear, thank you!

[thepronoob]

Thank you so much, easy and short explanation.

[Bruhbruhbruh]

ver interesting and detailed thank you

[Bill-uocm]

How did you figure out the parallax angle?

[physicstherock]

Wow....small video but explanation full ...talented ....

[mikeuu]

How do we account for the negative parallax exhibited by some stars?

[trevorwgoodchildx]

The one question I have still not answered: how do you convert miles into stellar parallax or vice versa?

[fclnylq]

how are the parallax angles measured? are they in terms of parsec