When did astronomers accept that fixed stars aren't fixed and are at different distances?

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When did astronomers accept that fixed stars aren't fixed and are at different distances

was it when heliocentric model was spreading because I saw a model of the solar system that was made in the 18th century where the sun was in the middle and the planets and comets around it and and the end it says firmament of fixed stars, wasn't at that time accepted stars were suns or atleast not attached to any firmament and fixed

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When did astronomers accept that fixed stars aren't fixed and are at different distances?

When did astronomers accept that fixed stars aren't fixed and are at different distances