How long would it take to get to the Orion nebula?

Answer 1

Just like any other trip from one place to another place, that kind of depends somewhat on

your speed. From the earth to the Andromeda galaxy, if you traveled at 600 miles per hour,

and followed a straight route, it would take you almost 3 trillion years. But if you were able

somehow to travel at the speed of light, then you'd only need 2.54 million years.

Answer 2

That would obviously depend on the speed. The Orion Nebula is at a distance of about 1300 light-years; so at the speed of light it would take about 1300 years to travel. (To a traveler traveling near the speed of light, it would seem much less - read about time dilation.) But at 0.001 the speed of light - which is still beyond the capabilities of current technology! - it would take over a million years.

Answer 3

14,813,819,500,000,000,000 M (14 quintillion, eight hundred thirteen quadrillion, eight hundred nineteen trillion and five hundred billion miles away and about about 2.5 million light-years away.

Answer 4

"Orion" isn't an object; it is a constellation, a name given to patterns in the stars. But the patterns do not exist in the stars; the patterns only exist in our own minds. Each of the stars that make up the constellation Orion are at different distances.

The red giant star Betelgeuse at Orion's shoulder is about 650 light years away, while the blue-white Rigel at Orion's knee is about 800 light years away. Bellatrix, at the right end of the belt, is about 240LY distant. Minkata, the middle star in the belt, is about 900 LY away, and Alnilam (the left-most star in the belt) is about 1200 LY.

Answer 5

First of all, Andromeda is not a star, it's a collection of many stars, dust, and gas, all held together by gravity in a spiral shape. In other words it's a spiral galaxy. Andromeda is approximately 2,500,000 light-years away, meaning it takes about 2,500,000 light-years for the light to reach us.

Answer 6

The Belt is not a single group; it has three main stars, at distances between approximately 800 and 1340 light-years.

To get to the nearest of these stars, therefore, would take about 800 years, if you managed to travel at a speed close to the speed of light. With current technology, however, it isn't possible to reach even stars that are much closer to us.

Answer 7

Somewhere between 3 and 4 billion years. It will probably happen just about the time that our Sun expands into a red giant, and incinerates the inner planets.

But not to worry; we have plenty of time to build the machines that will allow us to move the Earth out to a safe distance.

Answer 8

The Andromeda Galaxy is approximately 2.54 million light years away.

So the light you are seeing left the galaxy 2.54 million years ago.

Answer 9

The Andromeda Galaxy is approximatley 2.5 million light years away from the planet Earth. It is also the closest Galaxy to our own Milky Way Galaxy

Answer 10

2.5 million years if you're travelling at the speed of light.