Which British mathematician and astronomer first calculated, in 1838, the distance to a star other than the Sun using stellar parallax?
Measuring the distance to the stars was one of the great challenges of 19th-century astronomy. The breakthrough came with a tiny angular shift observed against the background sky.
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