Parallax Arc Seconds
British astronomer Herbert Hall Turner combined the words “parallax” and “second” in 1913 and created the term “parsec.” But what is it and how distant is something 1 parsec away? … Continue readingParallax Arc Seconds
Conjunctions and Parsecs
Conjunction Junction, what’s your function?Hookin’ up words and phrases and clauses. Bob Dorough (Schoolhouse Rock) Conjunctions in grammar are small words that connect phrases or clauses, just like the lyrics of Conjunction Junction say, above. So sentences like “I like apples but I don’t like apple pie” can make sense because of the word “but.” In astronomy, conjunctions are when two objects in the sky are visually close to each other. There is no hard and fast rule of how