What is the next nearest star to the planet earth?

Answer 1

Aludra, in Canis Majoris, has a visual magnitude of 2.4 and is 3,200 light years away. On an exceptionally clear, dark night people with good vision can see stars as faint as magnitude 6.5. Most of the stars we can see are within just a few hundred light years of earth.

The Andromeda Galaxy contains more stars than our galaxy, and is barely visible as a faint smudge of light below the constellation of Casseopia. All the stars in it are 2.5 million light years away from us. People have reported being able to see the Sombrero Galaxy, a collection of stars 10 million light years away.

Most galaxies are so far away we cannot see them with the naked eye. These vast collections of stars may be up to billions of light years away--possibly beyond any visible edge of our universe. We estimate the furthest stars to be some 46 billion light years from us. The reason they remain visible in a universe only 13.8 billion years old is due to the subsequent expansion of space.

Answer 2

The furthest star from earth that has been seen is the gamma-ray burst object GRB 080319B. There are billions of stars in space.

Answer 3

There is no definitive answer to this question, as all the stars have not been cataloged or even discovered.

Answer 4

After our sun, the next nearest star to our system is called Proxima Centauri, a red dwarf star roughly 4.2 light years away.

Answer 5

In our solar system it is Neptune because Pluto is no longer a planet.