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No. This is a common misconception. Most of the stars we see in the night sky are no more than a few hundred light years away. The closest star outside the solar system is Proxima Centauri, which is only 4.2 light years away. At such distances the light coming in from those stars left them no more than a few hundred years ago, only 4.2 years ago in the case of Proxima Centauri. No star in our galaxy is more than 75,000 light years away. Most stars last for billions of years, so 75,000 years for a star is not long at all. There are stars in other galaxies far enough away to have died by the time their light reaches us, but they are too far away for us to see them without a powerful telescope.
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How are eclipses produced?
One celestial body shades another from the light of a star. For example, the moon comes between the sun and where you are on the earth; or the earth gets between the sun and the moon.
How far are the closest star from earth?
4.2 light years away
How far away is Yildun from earth?
the star Yildun is 185 light years away from the sun!
How many miles is the little dipper from earth?
The Little Dipper is a constellation, a patterns of stars in the night sky that people pick out. It is not possible to give a distance of a constellation from Earth because it consists of many stars at very different distances from the earth. For example, Polaris, the brightest star in that constellation, is about 433 light years from Earth. But the second brightest star, Beta Ursae Minoris (also called Kochab) is about 131 light years from earth. The third brightest star is 487 light years away
Is the earth's atmosphere heated directly by a planet or a star?
Earth is heated by the sun, which is a star.
How do you get enough light if were not the closest planet to the sun?
The Earth is not the closest planet to the sun and it is generally agreed it gets enough light. Neptune however gets a negligible amount of light from the sun, which at Neptune's distance just looks like a bright star.
Why do stars seem to twinkle when viewed by naked eyes?
Stars twinkle because of turbulence in Earth's atmosphere. As light from a star passes through the atmosphere, it gets distorted by varying air temperatures and densities. This causes the star's light to appear to flicker or twinkle when viewed from the ground.
What star does not emit light?
a dead one
How are eclipses produced?
One celestial body shades another from the light of a star. For example, the moon comes between the sun and where you are on the earth; or the earth gets between the sun and the moon.
How many lightyears is the nearest star from the earth?
The nearest star to Earth is the sun, at a distance of 0.000016 light years from Earth. The next nearest star, Proxima Centauri, is about 4.2 light years away.
Does Bella Thorne star as alexis warren in as dead as it gets?
yes she does
Sun is star but earth is planet why?
Sun makes light, earth reflects light.
How long does it take for the light generated by the star Betelgeuse to reach Earth?
The light takes about 640 years to reach Earth, as Betelgeuse (a red supergiant star) is about 640 light years from Earth.
What is the distance in light years to a star located 100 light years away from Earth?
The distance to a star located 100 light years away from Earth is 100 light years.
How does earth give out light on its own?
Earth reflects light from the sun, it doesn't give out light as a star would.
What do you understand by the statement a star is eight light years away from the earth?
The light from a star eight light years away will take eight years to reach Earth.
What is the distance from Earth to the star Acubens?
Acubens, Alpha Cancri A, is approximately 174 light years from Earth.
