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Is alpha centauri between the earth and Mars?
No. Alpha Centauri is much, much further away than Mars.
How long does it take light to travel from Alpha Centaury the nearests star to your sun to your solar system?
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.
Is proxima centauri a binary star system or a triple star system?
Let's get our nomenclature right here. Alpha Centauri is a triple star system: Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B are a fairly close double of stars roughly like the Sun, and Alpha Centauri C is a much dimmer red dwarf orbiting the pair at a considerably greater distance. It just so happens that C's orbit brings it at times closer to the Sun than any other star that we currently know about. So Alpha Centauri C is sometimes itself called Proxima.
Why sun looks bigger than the other stars in the sky?
Because it's much closer to the Earth than the other stars. Outside our solar system - the nearest star to us is Alpha Centauri - which is 122,471,100,900 miles away. That's approximately 1,300 times further away from us as our Sun is !
What is the distance from earth to alpha centaurs?
Alpha Centauri (Rigil Kentaurus, Rigil Kent, or Toliman) is the brightest star in the southern constellation of Centaurus.It is actually a binary star, but appears to us as a single star.Alpha Centauri A has an apparent magnitude of -0.01Alpha Centauri B has an apparent magnitude of +1.33
Is alpha centauri between the earth and Mars?
No. Alpha Centauri is much, much further away than Mars.
. A star that has the same apparent magnitude as Alpha Centauri could?
be larger than Alpha Centauri and farther away from Earth
What star is closest to the earth other than the sun?
Alpha Centauri, which is 4.2 light years away from the Earth.
What star is closest to the sun other than proxima centauri?
Alpha Centauri
How far away is the second closest star from the earth?
The closest star we know of other than the Sun is Proxima (Alpha Centauri C) at about 4.2 light years. The next closest star after that is a tie, since it's a binary pair: Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B, both of which are about 4.4 light years away.
How far is alpha sagittarii from alpha centauri?
The "alpha" is a star's nomenclature means it's (usually) the brightest star in its constellation. Even if the constellations are apparently close, the stars could be any distance, since the constellation is only the two-dimensional "window" and doesn't tell us anything about the depth of the starfield. However, Alpha Sagittarii is about 180 light years from Earth. Since this is much further away than Alpha Centauri, we can more or less ignore the 4 light year distance between Earth and Alpha Centauri and say that Alpha Sagittarii is also about 180 light years from Alpha Centauri as well.
What is the nearest star other than or own?
Proxima Centauri, which is probably part of the Toliman (Alpha Centauri) system.Proxima Centauri, which is probably part of the Toliman (Alpha Centauri) system.Proxima Centauri, which is probably part of the Toliman (Alpha Centauri) system.Proxima Centauri, which is probably part of the Toliman (Alpha Centauri) system.
What is the closest star other than the sun?
At any given moment, it's one of the three stars making up the alpha Centauri system. The one that can get the closest is alpha Centauri C (aka Proxima), but depending on where it is in its orbit, it's possible for either alpha Centauri A or alpha Centauri B to be slightly closer than Proxima at a soecific point in time.
Alpha centauri is how much larger than sun?
Alpha Centauri is a binary, possibly triple, star system See related link for a pictorial.
How can the oort cloud be closer to alpha centauri than it is to the sun?
It is not.
Is Alpha Proxima the same star as Proxima Centauri?
To my understanding, the Alpha Centauri system contains two binary stars (Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B) and a third star Alpha Centauri C or Proxima Centauri (which is the closest star to our sun)
What is the name of a yellow star other than the sun?
Alpha Centauri A
