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How will you find the distance of a star from Sun, given that the angle at which it is viewed from the two solstices of Earth(i.e winter and summer) are alpha and beta respectively, and the distance between the points of the solstices is 150 million km.
{Hint - form a triangle using the given data. draw a perpendicular, find the height of the perpendicular

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