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The Moon is closer at 384400 km (0.0026 AU) away from Earth while the Sun is 150000000 KM (1 AU) from Earth.
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Which is the nearest out of the moon or the sun?
sun
Star nearest to the sun?
The nearest star to the Sun is Proxima Centauri.
Is the moon the nearest planet to the sun?
No. Mercury is the closest planet to the sun. The moon is not a planet and is the closest object in space to Earth.
Is the sun or the moon furthest from earth?
The Moon is farther from the Sun, roughly the same average distance from the Sun as the Earth. The Sun is nearly 400 times farther from the Earth and Moon (150 million kilometers) than the Moon is from the Earth (about 384,000 kilometers).The center of the Earth is around 240 thousand miles away from the center of the Moon. The earth is around 93 millionmiles away from the sun. Therefore, the Moon is much, much farther away from the Sun than it is from the Earth.
How star far from the moon?
The sun is the nearest star. It's about 393 times as far from usas the moon is.The next nearest star is about 106,800,000 times as far from usas the moon is.From the point of view of any star, the moon and the earth arepretty much in the same place.
Is it normal for the stars to be closer to the moon?
Closer than what ?? The sun is 390 times farther from the moon than we are,and the next nearest star is about 109 million times farther from the moon thanwe are.
Which planet is the nearest the the sun?
Mercury is the planet that is nearest the sun.
Did Venus pass the sun or the moon?
The sun. The moon orbits the earth and is our nearest space object - sometimes it passes between us and the sun, this is called a lunar eclipse. Venus orbits the sun. It is nearer the sun than us, so very occasionally it passes between us and the sun. This is called the transit of Venus.
Is there only one star between the Earth and the Moon?
There is no star between the Earth and the Moon. The nearest star is the Sun, at 93,000,000 miles away, whereas the Moon is only about 239,000 miles away.
What does the moon have that the sun and moon don't have?
The moon is included in the sun and the moon, so the moon has everything that the sun and moon have.
Why does the Moon appear much brighter and larger than the next-nearest star to someone on earth?
The Moon is much nearer than the nearest star.The Moon is much nearer than the nearest star.The Moon is much nearer than the nearest star.The Moon is much nearer than the nearest star.
Why was the most recent full moon referred to a super moon?
.A new or full moon which occurs with the Moon at or near (within 90% of) its closest approach to Earth in a given orbit. In short, Earth, Moon and Sun are all in a line, with Moon in its nearest approach to Earth.
