Alpha Centauri does not orbit the sun.
4.37 years.
Assuming that you start from earth, travelling that slowly to Alpha Centauri would take quite a bit of time. Alpha Centauri's about 4.367 light years away, which means at the suggested speed of 70,000 kilometers per hour, it would take you 673.26 centuries to get there. You definitely want to go much faster to get there.
It takes 4.37 years.
It takes light approximately 4.3 years to reach our solar system from Alpha Centauri.
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Alpha Centauri is 4.37 light-years away from Earth, which means it takes light, the fastest thing in the universe, 4.37 years to travel that distance. Although light travels at a speed of about 186,282 miles per second, the vastness of space makes this journey take years.
4.3 light years===========================Sorry. "Light year" is an answer to "how far", not "how long".Alpha Centauri is about 4.4 light years away from our solar system and everything in it,which means that it takes AC's light about 4.3 years to get here.
First of all, there has never yet been any such thing known to earth as a starship. If an object left Cape Canaveral at 1/2 the speed of light, and maintained a straight-line course toward the place where Alpha Centauri would be when it got there, it would reach Alpha Centauri after the clock on the launch-pad had ticked off 8.8 years.
It takes about 4.37 years for a radio transmission to travel from Earth to Alpha Centauri (the nearest star system) and another 4.37 years for the signal to travel back. This means a total round-trip communication time of around 8.74 years.
That's actually an easy calculation, if you state the problem correctly. Alpha Centauri is about 4.5 light years away. There are 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, 24 hours in a day, and 365.24 days in a year. Multiply all those numbers together to find out how many light-seconds it is to Alpha Centauri. The Moon is about 1.5 light seconds away, so divide by that to get the ratio.
Just because you NEED something by a certain time does not prompt users to actually answer your question.However, I'll give a few pointers.Depending on which part of Alpha Centauri you intend to go to, there are three stars with different distances.Alpha centauri A - about 4.365 light years from us.Alpha centauri B - about 4.364 light years from us.Alpha centauri C - about 4.243 light years from us.The speed of light is 299,792,458 meters per second.At 1,516 the speed of light is 454,485,366,328 meters per second.So all you have to do is calculate which Alpha Centauri you want to go to and divide the distance by the new speed.
technically the Sun Alpha Proxima is the closest star.If you got into a rocket it would take about 50,000 years to get there.