Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 254, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1918 — “Parsec” Is a Long, Long Way. [ARTICLE]

“Parsec” Is a Long, Long Way.

A “parsec” is a distance that' the most zealous pedestrian would hardly care to walk before breakfast In fact it doesn’t enter ipto the sphere of human operations at all, but it is a handy unit in astronomy. It is equal to 20,000,000,000,000 miles and is the distance traveled by light tn 3J years. A few of the nearest.stars are from one to five parsecs distant from us", but most of the stars that dot the sky are scores or hundreds of parsecs away.