A unit of astronomical length based on the distance from Earth at which stellar parallax is 1 second of arc

Usage examples of parsec.

Anybody or anything capable of traveling that far could certainly travel half a parsec farther if he wanted to.

It interconnected three stars a parsec distant from each other and contained the mass of seven rocky planets.

And if you ever try to return without satisfying us that you have the knowledge we want, then you will be blown out of space before you come within a parsec of Terminus.

Sooner or later, however, we must move through hyperspace or we will be condemned to remain within a parsec or two of Terminus for the rest of our lives.

Between four and five seconds later still, a hundredth of a parsec from where she had been lying, the research vessel halted again.

All you have to know is that deep-space vessels and communicators cover distances in parsecs at practically the same rate that Tellurian automobiles and radios cover miles.

Blight almost one hundred and fifty parsecs from Branner lies the home world of a primitive race of hominids, little visited by the rest of the galaxy.

Had the pilots or others of the Order wondered how far they had fallen, they might have measured their journey in parsecs or tendays or trillions of miles.

Scorpius and Sagittarius, but when dealing with distances measured in parsecs on the far end of a little-used blink route, one did not rely on optical readings as interpreted by the always fallible human mind.

Hades, of retrochronalities, of time flowing in reverse of the time of the entire galaxy, so that the expedition could return to the vicinity of the Sun less than twenty years after takeoff, even though a thousand parsecs separated the Harpy from Earth.

And the simple fact that we are here, from a distance of hundreds of parsecs, means more than any flexing of huge biceps.

And as he looked b could imagine, hear in his mind, the din, the roar, the sigh and moan of millions crowded into small spaces and his heart flew the countless parsecs and yearned for the Bojacks of Texas, the trackless plains with the grazing herds, the wide sky, the soft caress of the winds of home.

Far out in the rim there are multiples of cubic parsecs of space which contain less than nothing, it seems, for empty space can be more than nothing, and the vast spaces between the hard, bright stars become an enormous black hole.

He waited for acknowledgment and got it, acknowledgment meaning only that the stat had been started across the parsecs toward the addressee.

Lex repeated, in a stunned voice, as he fell a thousand parsecs deep into her eyes.