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How long to get to the nearest star other than the sun at 100 mph?
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The nearest star apart from the sun is Proxima Centauri at 4.2 light years (24.7 trillion miles) away. Traveling at 100 mph it would take 28 million years to travel such a distance.
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Which is the nearest star the pole star or moon?
The moon is far closer to Earth than any star is.
Is the sun closer to earth than a star?
The sun is a star, the closest one to Earth. The next nearest star to Earth is about 265,000 times farther away than the sun is.
How far is the second closest star to the sun?
Mars is the 2nd closest planet to the Earth. Venus is the planet closest to the Earth.
Is sun bigger than star or star bigger than sun?
The sun is a star, some stars are larger and other are smaller.
What percentage of visible stars are closer to the earth than the sun?
None are. The sun is the closest star to Earth. The next nearest star, Proxima Centauri, is about 260,000 times farther away than the sun is.
Sun is a nearest star to earth and what is the name of the nearest star other than sun?
Proxima Centauri
Which is the nearest star from the earth?
The star nearest the Earth is the sun. If you mean which is the nearest other than the sun, it is called Proxima Centauri.
Is the nearest star one light-year from the solar system?
No, the nearest star to the Earth, other than the Sun, is Proxima Centauri and it is 4.2 light years away.
What is the venus' nearest star?
No. Venus is a planet, not a star. The closest star to Earth is the sun.
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 does the sun appear brighter than a star?
The Sun is much, much closer to the Earth than any other star - eight light minutes vs. four light years for the next nearest star.
Why does the sun look so much bigger then the other stars?
Because it is a LOT closer than any other star. 93,000,000 million miles compared to 24,689,699,200,000 to our NEAREST star.
Which is the nearest star the pole star or moon?
The moon is far closer to Earth than any star is.
What is the next nearest star called besides the sun?
The nearest star to the earth other than the sun is called proxima centauri, a red dwarf star approximately 4.2 light-years distant in the constellation of centaurus. It was discovered in 1915 by Robert Innes, the Director of the union in South Africa. The star may be part of the alpha centauri system, and it is also the nearest star to the sun.
Why does the sun appear brighter than other stars from Earth?
The Sun is the closest star to Earth, so it appears much brighter than other, more distant stars.The Sun is eight light-MINUTES away from the Earth. The NEAREST other star is 250,000 times further away.
Is the sun closer to earth than a star?
The sun is a star, the closest one to Earth. The next nearest star to Earth is about 265,000 times farther away than the sun is.
Can there be more than one star in a solar system?
Sure. There are lots of binary star systems. And even ones with more than that. It is more common than many people realize. Our nearest neighbor is a star system with several stars all orbiting each other, or their center of mass, to be more precise.
