There's no precise answer to the question of "Where does space start?"
But you might consider it to be the distance far enough off the surface of the earth where artificial satellites can survive in orbit ... meaning the altitude where the atmosphere has thinned out sufficiently so that atmospheric drag is essentially negligible. This places us in the neighborhood of the orbital altitude of the International Space Station, which is a significant milestone; so in order to be able to offer a figure for negotiation, let's say ...
Space begins at roughly 220 kilometers (140 miles) from the earth's surface.
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∙ 13y agoThe North Star, also called Polaris or α Ursae Minoris, is about 430 lightyears from Earth. In a car going 100 miles per hour that never stops, it would take you about 3 thousand million years to travel that distance. This is about 4.0680272 * 1015 km or 2.5277549 * 1015 miles.
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∙ 13y agoEvery star is a different distance from earth.
The nearest star is the sun, about 93,000,000 miles away. (rounded)
The next nearest star is Proxima Centauri, about 25,866,000,000,000 miles away. (rounded)
Astronomers have photographed the light of stars as far from earth as
80,538,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles. (rounded)
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∙ 14y agoThe star Arcturus is 37 lightyears away from Earth. A lightyear (the distance light travels in one Earth year) is 9 454 254 955 488 km so the distance in km is:
349 807 433 353 056 km
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∙ 14y agoThe North star, Polaris is 430 light-years away.
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∙ 14y agoThe nearest star to earth would be our sun. The sun is 149,597,892 kilometers away from earth. hope I helped :)
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∙ 7y agoThe North Star, Polaris is about 430 light years from Earth, which works out to about 4 quadrillion miles.
the north star. it takes 8 minutes for light to get from the sun to the earth. it takes half a billion years for light to get to us from the north star...i think. but i know that the sun is definetly closer.
Because the 'Solar System' all revolves around one star, Sol or the Sun. The North Star is another star light years away from the Sun.
Neither. It is actually a star. Its true name is Polaris, just as the true name of the sun is Sol. It is nicknamed the North Star because it is the only star that appears not to move in the sky, because its position is directly over the North Pole.
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The North Star does not orbit the sun, nor do any of the stars. The North Star is its own star system several times more massive than the sun.
Do You Know That The Sun Is How Far From Main Sequence Or Called White Dwarfs .. The Sun Is Our Star And It's Size Is Medium-Sized The Far As 8,400 Solar Radii In Sun ,,
the north star. it takes 8 minutes for light to get from the sun to the earth. it takes half a billion years for light to get to us from the north star...i think. but i know that the sun is definetly closer.
No. Mercury is one of the planets that orbit the sun. The North Star is Polaris.
The Sun is by far the nearest star to Jupiter.
Because the 'Solar System' all revolves around one star, Sol or the Sun. The North Star is another star light years away from the Sun.
Barnard's star is about 6 light years away from the sun.
a star is a big ball of hot gas just like our sun. infact a star is a far off sun somewhere in our universe.
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That's not possible a star is a sun, planets revolve around a star, and the planet would be destroyed far far far far far before the star reached it, if that was even possible
No. The sun is a main sequence star far smaller than any supergiant.
They are the same thing. A sun is right here, while a star is VERY far away. But if we could build - WHEN we CAN build! - interstellar spacecraft, we will take off from the Earth, and we'll see our Sun nearby. When we get there, we will find a new sun in the sky - and our Sun will be a tiny star, far away!