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How far is earth from the the stars?

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16y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

The nearest star neighbors to the Earth are three stars that make up a multiple system. To the naked eye the system appears as a single bright star, Alpha Centauri. Alpha Centauri is a double star -- two stars revolving about each other that are too close to be seen as separate by the naked eye. Near them is the third member of the system, a faint star known as Proxima Centauri, our sun's closest neighbor.

Proxima Centauri is 4.3 light-years from the Sun (and Earth). It lies at a distance of over 24,000,000,000,000 miles, about 270,000 times farther than the distance between the Earth and the Sun.

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