How long would it take to get to the nearest star out side of your solar system?

Answer 1

This depends on how fast you are travelling. The nearest star to our solar system is Proxima Centauri, which is located 4.2421 light years away (or 40,133,364,737,735km). The fastest man-made object to date is the Helios 2 solar probe, which had a speed of 252,800km/hr. If you travelled at this speed, it would take you 158755398.5 hours, or 6614808.3 days or 18122.8 years to get there.

Answer 2

Barnard's Star, the second-nearest star to our stellar system, is about 6 light years away. That means that if we could travel at the speed of light, we could get there in six years.

However, in order to reach the speed of light we would have to use an infinite amount of energy -- more than could be carried on our ship. So it is safe to say that it will take more than six years, since (as far as we know) we will never be able to exceed the speed of light.

Answer 3

It depends on your speed. It'll of course take you longer if you go one mile an hour than if you go ten thousand miles an hour. Assuming that you're going one light-year per year (the so called cosmic speed limit), it would take you 4.37 years to get there. Its a star system named Alpha Centauri - however, it's actually two stars in orbit around each other, called Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B.

Answer 4

That is an impossible question to answer, since we don't know where the farthest star is. It is commonly believed that the universe is endless, or there is a chain of universes known as parallel universes that go on forever.

Answer 5

Just like any other trip from where you are to any other place, the time
it takes to get there depends on how fast you travel.

Here are the times required for a trip to the nearest star outside the solar
system by means of a few different forms of conveyance. This handy list
will help you plan on how you'd prefer to travel, based on how long you can
be away from the office, how long a school break the kids have, how long to
stop milk delivery, etc.

Notice that these are one-way times only, no return. Also, they're the times
for straight-line travel only, with no stops, curves, or side trips:

• Walking, 3 mph . . . . . . . . . . . 938.2 million years
• Cycling, 10 mph. . . . . . . . . . . 281.5 million years
• Driving, 75 mph. . . . . . . . . . . . 37.5 million years
• Indy Driving, 200 mph. . . . . . . . 14.1 million years
• Commercial flying, 400 mph. . . . . 7.0 million years
• Military flying, 800 mph. . . . . . . . 3.5 million years
• Rocketing, 5,000 mph . . . . . . . 562.9 thousand years
• Flashing, speed of light. . . . . . . . 4.2 years

Answer 6

Here on the Earth, we're 93 million miles from the nearest star, called the Sun. We really don't want to get a whole lot closer.

Are you talking about getting to a different star? Based on our current technology (stuff we're pretty sure would work, if we actually built it) we could build a starship that would allow us to get to the nearest other star system in about 100 years. If we decided to - or needed to - build such a system, it would probably take 30 years to build and cost several trillion dollars.

However, there are serious scientists who claim that it MIGHT be possible to design much faster spacecraft. The Science Fiction concept of a "warp drive" actually has some basis in mathematics, and might not be completely impossible to achieve.

If we could travel at the speed of light - which is mathematically impossible - the nearest star would be 4.2 years away.

Answer 7

The only star in our solar system is the sun.