noun
- plural of parsec: units of astronomical distance equal to about 3.26 light-years
Usage: astronomy
Examples
- The nearest star is located about 1.3 parsecs from Earth.
- Astronomers measure distances between galaxies in millions of parsecs.
- The telescope can detect objects thousands of parsecs away.
- Scientists calculated that the nebula spans several parsecs in diameter.
- Stellar distances within our galaxy are typically measured in parsecs.
- The research team mapped star formations across hundreds of parsecs.