As viewed from our location, the stars of the Big Dipper canbe connected with im

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As viewed from our location, the stars of the Big Dipper canbe connected with imaginary lines to form the shape of a pot with acurved handle. To where would you have to travel to first observean easily recognizable change in the shape formed by these stars(to an observer without a telescope)? A) Pluto
B) A planet around anotherstar
C)Australia
D)California
E) Earth's Moon

Obviously I don't think its C or D. My guess would be B because theBig Dipper is located in another galaxy.
As viewed from our location, the stars of the Big Dipper canbe connected with imaginary lines to form the shape of a pot with acurved handle. To where would you have to travel to first observean easily recognizable change in the shape formed by these stars(to an observer without a telescope)? A) Pluto
B) A planet around anotherstar
C)Australia
D)California
E) Earth's Moon

Obviously I don't think its C or D. My guess would be B because theBig Dipper is located in another galaxy.

Explanation / Answer

I believe it is B because as a whole the solar system itself is too small for the parallax shift to be noticed by the naked eye.  Just going to Pluto is too short. You should need to be more than a lightyear away for it to be an obvious difference

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