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For example, if a star is at a distance of 5 light-years, it will take 5 years to travel there at the speed of light.
It takes 4.37 years.
Proxima Centauri is the the closet star besides the Earth to the sun. It is 4.2 light years from the Earth.
Proxima Centauri is 4.2 light years away, so it would take 4.2 years for light from that star to reach us.
A Light Year is a measure of distance. If a star is 61 light years away, then it would take light (or radio waves, which travel at the speed of light) 61 years to get there.
Barnard's star (5.9 light years)
The nearest star to us is the SUN. It takes light about 8 minutes to travel from the Sun to Eart. #The next nearest star is Alpha Centurii. Light takes about 4.5 years to travel from this star to Earth.
8.5 mins
Our Sun is at a distance of 8 light-minutes. The next star outside our Solar System is Proxima Centauri, at a distance of 4.2 light-years.
About 4.2 years.
Theoretically, an infinite distance. No one has found a limit so far.
It depends how fast you are travelling, and also how long ago the star died; assuming the star JUST died, if you travel there and back at twice the speed of light, you will see it just as it disappears, travel any slower and it will be gone when you get back.However if the star died, say, 10 light years ago, and the distance between earth and the star is 20 light years, you will have to travel at 4 times the speed of light to get back in time to see it disappear.
For example, if a star is at a distance of 5 light-years, it will take 5 years to travel there at the speed of light.
8.31 minutes @ the speed of light.
Alpha Centari is the nearest star to Sol. It is about 4 light years or 24 trillion miles away.
It takes 4.37 years.
no Theoretically, if you could travel faster than the speed of light, you could go back in time. When you look through a telescope at a distant star, you are looking back in time because the light from the star, that you are seeing now, may have taken hundreds of years to travel from the star to your eye. If you can travel faster than light, you could travel to the star and arrive before the light you're seeing now left the star in the first place. Therefore you travelled to a time previous to when the light left.