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Alpha Centauri, which is 4.2 light years away from the Earth.
Yessenia Bashirian
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∙ 12y agoProxima Centauri, part of the Toliman (Alpha Centauri) system. Distance is about 4.2 light-years.
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Why is the star closest to the earth?
Because it is closer to the earth than any other star.
What star is other than closest to earth?
The Sun is the closest star to Earth. The next closest star is 4.2 light years away. It is a red dwarf called Proxima Centauri.
Why is the sun closest to the earth?
Because it is closer to the earth than any other star.
Are stars or planets closest to the earth?
The sun (also known as Sol), which is also a star, is the closest to Earth. Other than the sun, the closest star is called Proxima Centauri, and it is about four and a half light years away, or about 32 trillion miles away. That's the closest.
Why does Earth receive more energy from the Sun than from any other star?
Because the Sun is the closest to the Earth.
Are stars the closest to earth?
Those that are closest are the closest stars to earth. The champion closest star ...the closest of all of them ... is the sun. Coming in at a distant second place, the nextclosest star is 278 thousand times farther from earth than the sun is.
Why earth receives more energy from the sun than from any other star?
Because it is the closest star to earth, meaning less energy is lost to the cosmos on its journey towards earth.
How many lightyears is the closest sun other than the sun?
The closest star to the Earth, other than our own Sun, is the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri. It is about 4.22 light years away from us.The second closest star to the Earth (apart from the Sun) is Barnard's Star, a red dwarf. It is about 5.96 light years (about 35.0 trillion miles or 56.3 trillion kilometers) away.
What is the venus' nearest star?
No. Venus is a planet, not a star. The closest star to Earth is the sun.
Is the sun closer to earth than a star?
The sun is a star, the closest one to Earth. The next nearest star to Earth is about 265,000 times farther away than the sun is.
Why is the sun the brighter than other stars?
It's a lot closer to the Earth than any other star. The second closest star to the Earth is 5 Light Years away. The Sun is 8 minutes away from the Earth, traveling at the speed of light.
Is one star is between the earth and the moon?
No. The moon is the closest astronomical object to Earth. The closest star to Earth is the sun, which is about 400 times farther away than the moon. The next nearest star is more than 260,000 times farther away than the sun.
