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Distances from the earth to the moon sun and the next nearest star?
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∙ 16y ago
The moon is 380,000 km (238,000 miles) from earth, the sun is 149 million km (93 million miles) away.The closest star is alpha cetauri (4.2 light years) It is a binary or double star which is orbited by a third star called proxima centauri. At some points in its orbit, proxima is the closest. The next closest is Barnard's star(5.9 light years)
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∙ 16y ago
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∙ 14y ago- The Sun - ~8.333 light minutes
- Proxima Centari - 4.2 light years
- Alpha Centauri AB - 4.37 light years
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∙ 13y agoThe clouds are closer ! Clouds are formed in the earth's atmosphere - the moon is about 240,000 miles away !
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∙ 15y agoclouds
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∙ 13y agoThe moon
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What planet is the moon next to?
The planet Earth is next to the Moon
Which are the nearest farthest stars from earth?
The moon is the closest of these to the earth. It is 400 times closer to the earth than the sun, the second closest thing to the earth from your list. The third would be other stars besides our sun. The next nearest star (Proxima Centauri) is about 272 thousand times as far from earth as our sun is. Those stars may or may not be arranged in constellations, which are simply configurations of stars that appear to form objects (asterisms) in our sky.
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.
What lists earth Jupiter the moon and the sun in order from largest to smallest?
In order from smallest to largest, the moon comes first, the Earth next, and then the Sun. The Sun is over 100 times larger than the Earth.
Star or planet next to the moon?
As of the end of February, 2009, the new Moon is passing by Venus, otherwise the brightest object in the western sky after sundown. (They were about 1.5 degrees apart on the evening of Feb. 27th, an event generally called a "conjunction".) Looked at another way, the Earth is the star or planet nearest to the Moon.
What is the Nearest star to the moon in may?
This is the same as asking "what is the nearest star to Earth [or to the Solar System] in any season". The distance from Moon to Earth is insignificant; the distances to other stars don't change significantly from one season to the next. The closest star from Earth is our Sun - distance 150 million km, or a little over 8 light-minutes. The next-closest star is Proxima Centauri, distance about 4.2 light-years.
Why does the Moon appear much brighter and larger than the next-nearest star to someone on earth?
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What planet is the moon next to?
The planet Earth is next to the Moon
What planets are next to moon?
Well, our own Earth is its closest neighbour. After that it is Venus (when at its closest approach). Perhaps you meant "next to" as in nearest in the sky when we look at the Moon. That is changing all the time of course.
What is the distance in the Earth?
That probably depends on where the other end is.To the moon . . . 0.0026To the sun . . . 1.0To the next nearest star . . . 271,600etc.
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 one star is between the earth and the moon?
No. The moon is the closest astronomical object to Earth. The closest star to Earth is the sun, which is about 400 times farther away than the moon. The next nearest star is more than 260,000 times farther away than the sun.
What is the distance from earth in AU?
That probably depends on where the other end is.To the moon . . . 0.0026To the sun . . . 1.0To the next nearest star . . . 271,600etc.
What is the 'relative' distances between the Earth the Moon the planets the Sun galaxies and the Universe?
Working from the list given in the question ... -- The Earth is closest of all items on the list. -- The Moon is next. -- Three of the solar system's planets are next, then the sun, then the rest of the planets. -- The galaxy of which our solar system is a part is next, followed by all other galaxies. -- The universe is defined as "everything ... all space and all time", so parts of the universe are the nearest, middlest, and farthest things from us, and from anything else.
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.
What do you see next after sun and moon?
earth
At what date will the moon pass between the sun and the earth when will this phase is occur next?
The "new moon" is when the Moon passes (almost) between the Sun and the Earth. The next new moon will be on November 16, 2009.If the Moon were to pass EXACTLY between the Sun and the Earth, there would be a solar eclipse.
