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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.

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Why is the star closest to the earth?

Because it is closer to the earth than any other star.


Why is the sun closest to the earth?

Because it is closer to the earth than any other star.


Why does Earth receive more energy from the Sun than from any other star?

Because the Sun is the closest to the Earth.


What is the closest star other than the sun and how faraway is it?

The closest star to Earth, other than the Sun, is Proxima Centauri, which is part of the Alpha Centauri star system. It is located approximately 4.24 light-years away from Earth. Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf star and is not visible to the naked eye.


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.


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.


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.


Not counting the sun what is the closest start to the earth?

Proxima Centauri , about 3.8 lightyears away from Earth. :)


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.


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.


Is the sun or stars furtherest from earth?

The Sun is our closest star, however obviously the other galactic stars are much further from Earth than our Sun.


Why other says that sun is the closest star to earth?

The Sun is often referred to as the closest star to Earth because it is the star that is closest in distance, at about 93 million miles away. In comparison, the next closest star to Earth, Proxima Centauri, is over 4 light-years away.