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📅 NSB Round Robin 2018🎓 HS🔄 Round 6#️⃣ Question 14🌟 Bonus✍️ Short Answer

An amateur astronomer observes 61 Cygni and determines that it has a parallax angle of 0.333 arcseconds. To the nearest whole number of light years, how far away is 61 Cygni from the Earth?

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