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## [Parallax You Can See: Proxima Centauri from New Horizons and Earth](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/parallax-you-can-see-proxima-centauri-from-new-horizons-and-earth/1648)

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**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\
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**Last updated:** [5 July 2022 14:31 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/parallax-you-can-see-proxima-centauri-from-new-horizons-and-earth/1648 "2022-07-05T14:31:41Z")

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The most direct way of measuring the distances to nearby stars is by parallax: observing them against a field of distant stars six months apart and measuring the tiny shift in their apparent position due to being viewe…