That really depends on the speed at which you travel, and the route you take.
If you traveled at 1 million miles per hour and traveled in a straight line, your travel time
to the closest star past the sun would be roughly 2,951 years.
Of course, the sun is actually the closest star. At 1 million miles per hour in a straight line,
you'd pass the moon in 14 minutes, and you could be at the sun in less than 4 days.
Our suns light takes 8. some odd minutes to reach the earth and the is traveling at 299 792 458 m / s... and that is the closest star... other than that the other closest star is about 10 light years away... meaning it would take ten years traveling that fast to reach that star... so to the sun... i would say a few months, but to the closest star other than the sun... a few decades :/ so a long time ha
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The sun is always by far the closest, regardless of time of day. The next nearest star is Proxima centauri, over 4 lightyears away.
colfoy
This may sound simple but the closest star is in fact the sun that you can see durign day time.
The star closest to the zenith depends on your location and the current time, as the location of stars in the sky changes throughout the night and with your position on Earth. The star that is currently at the zenith will be the one directly overhead in your local sky.
It would probably have still been Proxima Centauri.
The closest star to the moon is the Sun, of course. But if you mean looking up into the night sky, there would be different stars appearing next to the moon all the time, because the earth is moving and the moon is moving and the stars are unbelievably far away.
Actually, the closest star to Earth is Sun which would be reached in a little more than 8 minutes.As for other stars, closest one is Proxima Centauri. You'd need to travel for 4 years and 2 months to reach it at the speed of light. You may or may not know that you have asked a delightful trick question. If I were traveling at the speed of light [impossible, of course] how long would it take me to get to earth's nearest star? From my point of view, the trip would be instantaneous. It would also be an instantaneous trip if I traveled to a destination 100 million light years away. Time completely stops at light speed. Observers on earth would conclude that the trip took me 8 minutes. We would all be right, within the scope of our individual frames of reference.
The third closest star will be either Alpha Centauri A or Alpha Centauri B depending on the time of observation.
actually, the sun is a star, but we are closest to it so its light stops you seeing any others
ANSWER:With the Sun being the first, Proxima Centauri is the next closest at 4.22 light years away in the Alpha Centauri star system. See the related link for more information.