How is the distance 3.26 light years derived for a parsec?

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Lucas Woods
Apr 13, 2018

see explanation

Explanation:

A parcec is defined as the distance from where you would see the earth's orbit around the sun from a 1° angle.
![https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsec#/media/File:Parsechttp://-sv.svg](https://useruploads.socratic.org/zQPCBHsTRi4BLnQFWsEQ_250px-Parsec-sv.svg.png)
It's in swedish but the yellow ball in the middle is the sun, the blue ball is the earth. As you see at the top the earth is seen from a 1° angle. the distance from the sun and the top of the line is 1 parsec that happends to be 3,26 light years

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