Parallax Thumb Trick
A nearby star seems to shift against distant ones as Earth goes round the Sun, and the size of the shift gives its distance.
What is and is not to scale.
How this was made and sources
One HTML file: no libraries, no network requests. Every number below was read on the date shown, from the page named next to it.
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