Space exploration began with the launch of Sputnik and Astrophysics was born as the application of physics to the phenomena observed by Astronomy, which etymologically means laws of the stars.
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| Dynamical Parallax |
A measure of the distance to a visual binary star based on estimates of the masses of the stars deduced from their spectra and the observed properties of their orbits around each other.
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