About 4.2 years.
If light leaves Proxima Centauri in 2020, it will take 4.3 years to reach Earth. Therefore, the light will arrive on Earth in the year 2024.
4.37 years. the star is Alpha Centauri ---- That's wrong. The closest star is the sun and it takes 8.3 minutes for light to reach us. when phrased nearest star it can be a trick question.. Alpha Centauri is the nearest star besides the Sun.
It would take light approximately 4.3 years to travel from the Sun to the nearest star, Proxima Centauri. This distance is about 4.24 light-years away, making it the closest known star to our solar system.
12.5 light years away :) 73487500000000 miles 118259130907260 kilometers that is the nearest galaxy but the nearest sun is Alpha centauri; it is 44000 Billion km away from earth
The nearest star to Earth is regarded as the Sun. The light from the Sun takes 8.3 minutes approximately, after calculating the distance of the Sun from Earth and the speed of light. It can be calculated by the formula: Time = Distance / Speed. If you mean the nearest star apart from the Sun, that is "Proxima Centauri". That light from that star takes about 4.22 years to reach us.
The Space shuttle cannot go beyond low earth orbit, but assuming you were traveling at the shuttle's orbital speed of 17,600 mph it would take approximately 7 months to reach the sun (the nearest star to earth), and approximately 160,000 years to reach Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to the sun.
About 4.2 years.
The nearest star is the Sun; it takes light 8 minutes and 20 seconds to reach Earth from the Sun. The closest star outside our Sun is Proxima Centauri; it takes light 4.2 years to reach us. At speeds slower than the speed of light, it will obviously take longer.
Proxima Centauri is 4.2 light years away, so it would take 4.2 years for light from that star to reach us.
The nearest star to Earth, Proxima Centauri, is approximately 4.24 light-years away. Traveling at 100 miles per hour, it would take about 81,000 years to reach Proxima Centauri, as light takes about 4.24 years to cover that distance. Given the vast distances in space, even traveling at high speeds by earthly standards is still vastly insufficient for interstellar travel.
It would take over 114,000 years to reach the nearest star (Proxima Centauri) traveling at 100 mph. This distance is approximately 4.24 light years away, meaning it would take light over four years to travel them.
That depends on the distance to the other star. The NEAREST star to our Sun is Proxima Centauri, a red dwarf star that is not visible to the naked eye. It is 4.2 light years away, meaning that it takes light 4.2 years to reach our solar system.By comparison, our Sun is 8.3 light-MINUTES away from the Earth.