Stars don't travel to earth. But the light and other radiation that they emit spreads out
in every direction from the star, and some of it eventually hits the earth.
Starting out from the star, it takes the light 1 year to reach the earth for every 5,878,700,000,000 miles
it has to cover to get here.
The light takes about 640 years to reach Earth, as Betelgeuse (a red supergiant star) is about 640 light years from Earth.
It takes approx. 8 and half minutes to reach earth
It takes about 3,638,768,483 years so it'll take a super long time!
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.
In our Solar System, we see light from our sun reflected off the planets. In more distant galaxies, light from many millions of stars takes a long time to reach the Earth. It takes light 4 years to reach the Earth from Sirius, a near neighbouring star. Using the Hubble telescope, we can see the light from the Eagle Nebula, which takes 7,000 years to reach the Earth.
because they are so far away!!
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.
Well it depends on what you mean. The distance for how long it takes, or the time as in how long since Earth was made. Earth as you know has been here a long long time. Stars light has been shinning towards Earth eversince it was made. To see how long it takes for a stars light to reach Earth depends on how distant and huge the star is.
The closest star to Earth, Proxima Centauri, is about 4.24 light-years away. This means that light from Proxima Centauri takes approximately 4.24 years to reach us. In comparison, light from the Sun takes about 8 minutes and 20 seconds to reach Earth. Thus, the travel time for light from the closest star is significantly longer than that from the Sun.
The Sun is nearest star to Earth. Its light takes about 8 min. 20.33 sec. to reach to Earth. Its mine the distance of the Sun is near about 150 million km.
Light from a star 13,000,000 light-years away takes 13,000,000 years to reach Earth. Since light travels at a constant speed, this distance means we see the star as it was 13 million years ago. Therefore, if an event occurred at that star, we would only know about it after that lengthy time span.
A light-year is the distance light travels in a year. Therefore, if a certain star is "x" light-years from Earth, then it takes light "x" years to get fromthe star to us. Or the other way round.