Unit of length used in astronomy.
A unit of astronomical length based on the distance from Earth at which stellar parallax is 1 second of arc; equivalent to 3.262 light years.
1 I rather like that part about not knowing a parsec from a parsnip.
2 Weaver painstakingly brought it back; and so, in parsec - long zigzags, he held his course.
3 They'll get you before you've gone a parsec in space.
4 But, as Admiral Hornmeyer is fond of saying, I don't know a parsec from a parsnip.
6 Their speed slowed as they had to start scanning ahead for stars and dust clouds and parsec - wide cyclones of iridescent gas.
7 A parsec is a unit of distance, not time, so why would Solo use it to explain how quickly his ship could travel?
8 For a quick encore they measured the level of hydrogen emissions in the surrounding cubic parsec of space and then shut down again in boredom.
9 According to Star Wars: The Essential Atlas, the Kessel Run was an 18 - parsec (59 light-year) route used by smugglers to get around Imperial blockades.
10 Jump ten parsecs , however, and not even your own sun is recognizable.
11 Posited: Force-users should have mandatory downtime and retraining every few parsecs .
12 Amalfi! The voice, although it was breathing on his ear, was parsecs away.
13 Parsec What if you wanted to try cloud game streaming on a per-hour basis?
14 They were meant to be transmitted over tens of parsecs -
15 She makes the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs .
16 A celebration like that is worth traveling parsecs to see.
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