Why is the amazon rain forest so hot next to the equator?

How does the parallax of a nearby object compare to that of an object farther away?

One of the brightest comets of the 20th century was comet hyakutake, which passed close to the sun in early 1996. the orbital period of this comet is estimated to be about 30,000 years. find the semi-major axis of this comet’s orbit. compare it to the average sun-pluto distance and to the distance to alpha centauri, the nearest star to the sun, which is 4.3 light-years distant.

If the distance between two points on the ground is 10 miles and the distance between the same two points on a map is 4 inches, what is the map scale expressed as a ratio?