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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.

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-- The closest star to Earth is the sun.

-- There are 3 planets that can get closer to Earth than the sun is: Mercury, Venus, and Mars.

-- All the other planets are farther from Earth than the sun is.

-- But all other stars are much farther from us than any planet is.

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The nearest star to Earth is the Sun but the planets Venus and Mercury are both between Earth and the Sun so they are obviously closer.

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