The parsec (symbol: pc) is a unit of length used to measure the large distances to astronomical objects outside the Solar System, approximately equal to...
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Look up parsec in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A parsec is a unit of distance. Parsec may also refer to: PARSEC, a software package designed to perform...
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Parsec is a proprietary remote desktop application primarily used for playing games through video streaming. Using Parsec, a user can stream video game...
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PARSEC is a package designed to perform electronic structure calculations of solids and molecules using density functional theory (DFT). The acronym stands...
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The Parsec Awards were a set of annual awards created to recognize excellence in science fiction podcasts and podcast novels. The awards were created by...
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Binary black hole (redirect from Final parsec problem)
The question of how this happens is the "final parsec problem". A number of solutions to the final parsec problem have been proposed. Most involve mechanisms...
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Parsec is a library for writing parsers written in the programming language Haskell. It is based on higher-order parser combinators, so a complicated parser...
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Thousand Parsec (TP) is a free and open source project with the goal of creating a framework for turn-based space empire building games. Thousand Parsec is...
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Parsec is a horizontally scrolling shooter written by Jim Dramis and Paul Urbanus for the TI-99/4A and published by Texas Instruments in 1982. Dramis also...
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Slender: The Eight Pages (redirect from Parsec Productions, LLC)
the Unity game engine and was released in June 2012 by his one-man studio Parsec Productions. The defenseless player must collect eight pages scattered around...
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Parsec was a well-known Argentine science fiction magazine published in 1984. The founder was Sergio Gaut vel Hartman. The magazine existed between June...
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Buzz Lightyear of Star Command (redirect from Ty Parsec)
three-eyed aliens who maintain the technology and equipment of Star Command. Ty Parsec (voiced by Steve Hytner) is an old comrade of Buzz Lightyear, who is fed...
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Pseudopod (podcast) (section Parsec Awards)
Anders Manga. Pseudopod has won the Parsec award twice and has been a finalist six additional times: Won the 2009 Parsec Award for Best Speculative Fiction...
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component in the definition of another unit of astronomical length, the parsec. One au is approximately equivalent to 499 light-seconds. A variety of unit...
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Princeton Application Repository for Shared-Memory Computers (PARSEC) is a benchmark suite composed of multi-threaded emerging workloads that is used to...
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Parallax in astronomy (section Parsec)
hundred parsecs of the Sun, with the most distant at a few thousand parsecs, and the Andromeda Galaxy at over 700,000 parsecs. The word parsec is a shortened...
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Matrix". Parsec. Retrieved 10 August 2021. "All Advanced Configuration Options". Parsec. Retrieved 10 August 2021. "Security At Parsec". Parsec. Retrieved...
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publications. The unit most commonly used in professional astronomy is the parsec (symbol: pc, about 3.26 light-years). As defined by the International Astronomical...
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40 microarcseconds, enabling reliable distance measurements up to 3,066 parsecs (10,000 ly) for a small number of stars. This gives more accuracy to the...
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25 parsecs (82 ly) of the Sun. In 1957, German astronomer Wilhelm Gliese published his first star catalogue of 915 known stars within 20 parsecs (65 ly)...
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2013. "2007 Parsec Awards Winners & Finalists". Parsec Awards. Retrieved December 28, 2013. "2008 Parsec Awards Winners & Finalists". Parsec Awards. Retrieved...
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south to the Pipe Nebula. There are around 10 million stars within one parsec of the Galactic Center, dominated by red giants, with a significant population...
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higher-level constructs to the general language. An example would be the monadic Parsec parser for Haskell. The library approach allows the parsers to be first-class...
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series with celebrity interviews. Horror podcasts have featured in the Parsec Awards, and in 2013 The NoSleep Podcast won the award for "Best New Speculative...
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The following nearest bright stars are found within 15.0 parsecs (48.9 ly) of the closest star, the Sun, and have an absolute magnitude of +8.5 or brighter...
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100,000 parsecs in diameter (approximately 3,000 to 300,000 light years) and are separated by distances in the order of millions of parsecs (or megaparsecs)...
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dwarfs, brown dwarfs, and sub-brown dwarfs within 20 light-years (6.13 parsecs) of the Sun. So far, 131 such objects have been found. Only 22 are bright...
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astronomical units (au). One siriometer is approximately 149.6 petametres; 4.848 parsecs; 15.81 light-years. The distance from Earth to the star Sirius is then...
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of them lie within about one parsec (3.26 light-years) of the source, although some have been observed several parsecs away. HH objects are transient...
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