How do we determine distances of objects in space?

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Sep 21, 2015

So how do we determine distances of objects in space? I think I understand using the parallax to calculate distances of relatively nearby objects, but what about further off objects?

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Check this out:
http://astro.unl.edu/naap/distance/distance.html

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