Parsec synonyms

pär'sĕk'

(Astronomy) The mean distance from the Earth to the Sun (the semi-major axis of Earth's orbit), approximately 149,600,000 kilometres (symbol AU), used to measure distances in the solar system.

light year (related)

A very great distance, amount of time, etc.

secpar

a unit of astronomical length based on the distance from Earth at which stellar parallax is 1 second of arc; equivalent to 3.262 light years

megaparsecs (related)

kpc (related)

arcminutes (related)

a-u (related)

km-s (related)

km-sec (related)

arcsec (related)

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