Average distance between stars

Answer 1

What is the length of a piece of string?

No-one can know for sure, because there are assumed to be a ridiculously big number of stars in the universe.

Proxima Centauri, our nearest star other than the sun, is 4.2 LY away.

Sirius A and B are 8.6 LY away

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Answer 2

There is no specific term used for the distance between two stars. We would typically measure this distance in light years or in parsecs, but the distance would be different between any pair of stars.

Answer 3

The nearest star to our own Sun is the red dwarf Proxima Centauri, which is 4.2 light years away.

That's 24,689,699,200,000 miles.

In globular clusters, the stars are somewhat closer together, but they are all at different distances.

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Answer 4

It is hard to give an average; the nearest star from us has a distance of 4.2 light-years, the next stars are only slightly farther, so the average seems to be some 4-5 light-years. But closer to the center of the Milky Way, the stars are much closer together.

Answer 5

In the case of a double star, the distance between two stars can be a fraction of an astronomical unit - i.e., a few light-minutes. Otherwise, the distance between the nearest stars in our neighborhood is typically a few light-years, but in some places - near the galactic center, or in globular clusters - stars are much closer to each other.

Answer 6

A few light-years to the nearest stars. The nearest known star (other than the Sun itself) is at a distance of about 4.2 light-years.

Answer 7

Depends which stars!