The closest star is the Sun. The distance is a little over 8 light-minutes. That is, it takes light from the Sun that long to reach us.The next-closest star is Proxima Centauri. The distance is about 4.2 light-years.
The sun is a star. Its different to us than other stars because it is the closest to our planet.
Polaris is the closest of the three stars.
Stars generate and radiate their own light. This is pretty obvious when you think about the star that's closest to us ... the sun.
The Sun is the closest star. Next closest are the three stars of the Alpha Centauri system, of which the closest is Proxima Centauri.
The Picses constellation is a group of stars far from our solar system, the closest of these stars being around 14 light years from us.
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.
Stars are much farther away from Earth than the sun. The sun is our closest star, located about 93 million miles away, while other stars are light-years away, with the closest one (Proxima Centauri) about 4.24 light-years away.
The closest galaxy has to be the one we call the "Milky Way", since the sun is one of the stars in it, and we and our whole solar system are inside it. The next closest is the one we call the "Andromeda Galaxy" because we see it among the stars of the "Andromeda" constellation. It's something like 2.5 million light years distant from us.
It is closer than all of the other stars, therefore looking bigger.
Planets and stars are not the same. Venus is the closest planet, on average. The sun is the closest star.
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