<p><a href="https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/19-4-the-h-r-diagram-and-cosmic-distances#fs-id1165720742736" rel="nofollow noreferrer">The openstax Astronomy textbook</a> says that when the Gaia mission is complete, we'll have parallax measurements to 30k light years. Do we have those now?</p>

<p>What's the most distant object astronomers have measured by parallax so far?</p>

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What's the most distant object we've measured by parallax?
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# What's the most distant object we've measured by parallax?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2020-03-03)

[The openstax Astronomy textbook](https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/19-4-the-h-r-diagram-and-cosmic-distances#fs-id1165720742736) says that when the Gaia mission is complete, we'll have parallax measurements to 30k light years. Do we have those now?

What's the most distant object astronomers have measured by parallax so far?

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> **username_1**: Different but related [What is the maximum distance *measurable* with parallax?](https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/q/31711/7982)  

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