How do you measure stuff in space? How do we know this star weighs x-times the weight of the sun? And how we know how much the sun weights. Same goes for distances. How can you tell how far something is?
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Wikipedia (naturally) has an article on the chain of inferences by which cosmic distances are measured: [cosmic distance ladder](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_distance_ladder)
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