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How long would it take to get to the nearest star in a space shuttle?
The Space shuttle cannot go beyond low earth orbit, but assuming you were traveling at the shuttle's orbital speed of 17,600 mph it would take approximately 7 months to reach the sun (the nearest star to earth), and approximately 160,000 years to reach Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to the sun.
How long would it take in the space shuttle to get to the closest star?
It would take thousands of years to travel to the closest star, Proxima Centauri, using current space shuttle technology. The distance between Earth and Proxima Centauri is about 4.24 light years, which is equivalent to about 25 trillion miles.
How long would it take a 747 to reach the nearest star?
The nearest star to Earth, Proxima Centauri, is about 4.24 light-years away. A Boeing 747 typically flies at a cruising speed of around 570 miles per hour. If we calculate the time it would take to reach Proxima Centauri at that speed, it would take approximately 6,700 years, assuming continuous flight without any stops. This highlights the vast distances between stars in our galaxy.
What is the difference between Sirius and Proxima Centauri?
Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf star and the nearest star to us other than the sun. It is about 4.2 light years away and is much dimmer than the sun, too dim to be seen with the naked eye. It is unclear whether it is part of the Alpha Centauri system. Sirius is a binary star system consisting of a white dwarf stellar remnant and a white main sequence star about 25 times brighter than the sun. Sirius is one of our closest stellar neighbors at about 8.6 light years away. It is the brightest star in the night sky.
How far away is the next nearest star?
Technically speaking the closest star to Earth is the sun which is about 93 000 000 miles (150 million kilometers) away. After that the next nearest star is Alpha Centauri and it is 4.37 light years away from our sun.
What cometary cloud is between our solar system and proxima centauri?
The Oort cloud. It's actually not specifically between the solar system and Proxima, it's more like the outer layer of the solar system.
What are the distances between stars?
Impossible to tell all of them, so the one closet to our sun is Proxima Centauri. It is 4.243 light years away. (24,942,474,700,000 mi)
How long would it take to get to the nearest star in a space shuttle?
The Space shuttle cannot go beyond low earth orbit, but assuming you were traveling at the shuttle's orbital speed of 17,600 mph it would take approximately 7 months to reach the sun (the nearest star to earth), and approximately 160,000 years to reach Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to the sun.
How is spice different from proximate centaur?
I can only assume you mean to ask the difference between Spica and Proxima Centauri. Spica, or Alpha Virginis, the 15th brightest star in the sky, is a blue giant. It's about 250 light years from Earth. Proxima Centauri is only 4.24 light years from the sun, the nearest known star ( apart from the sun) to Earth. It's a red dwarf and invisible to the naked eye.
How far is earth from the the stars?
The nearest star neighbors to the Earth are three stars that make up a multiple system. To the naked eye the system appears as a single bright star, Alpha Centauri. Alpha Centauri is a double star -- two stars revolving about each other that are too close to be seen as separate by the naked eye. Near them is the third member of the system, a faint star known as Proxima Centauri, our sun's closest neighbor. Proxima Centauri is 4.3 light-years from the Sun (and Earth). It lies at a distance of over 24,000,000,000,000 miles, about 270,000 times farther than the distance between the Earth and the Sun.
What is the difference between Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B?
Alpha Centauri is a binary star system, commonly known as Alpha Centauri ABAlpha Centauri A is about the same size and age as our Sun with a spectral type of G2VAlpha Centauri B is about 14% smaller that our Sun and a lot cooler having a spectral type of K1VThere is a third star, not surprisingly called Alpha Centauri C or Proxima Centauri which is the closest star to Earth.See related link for more information.
The distance between your solar system and the closet one?
The nearest star to the Sun is currently Proxima Centauri. It is a distance of about 4.22 light years from the Sun.It is very likely that Proxima Centauri is gravitationally associated with the two stars of Alpha Centauri system since the separation is only 0.21 ly about 15,000 AU but no evidence of an elliptical orbit associated with a binary star has not been found. If this is correct then eventually Alpha Centauri A & B will become the nearest stars to Earth at a distance of 4.36 ly.
Why does the sun appear bigger than the stars you see in the sky at night?
Simply because it's a lot closer to us! The next-nearest star to us, Proxima Centauri, is about 271,000 times further away than the Sun. To put that in perspective, it takes light between 8 and 9 minutes to reach us from the Sun, and over 4.3 YEARS to reach us from Proxima Centauri! And most stars are much, much further away than that...
How long would it take in the space shuttle to get to the closest star?
It would take thousands of years to travel to the closest star, Proxima Centauri, using current space shuttle technology. The distance between Earth and Proxima Centauri is about 4.24 light years, which is equivalent to about 25 trillion miles.
How long would it take a 747 to reach the nearest star?
The nearest star to Earth, Proxima Centauri, is about 4.24 light-years away. A Boeing 747 typically flies at a cruising speed of around 570 miles per hour. If we calculate the time it would take to reach Proxima Centauri at that speed, it would take approximately 6,700 years, assuming continuous flight without any stops. This highlights the vast distances between stars in our galaxy.
What is the difference between Sirius and Proxima Centauri?
Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf star and the nearest star to us other than the sun. It is about 4.2 light years away and is much dimmer than the sun, too dim to be seen with the naked eye. It is unclear whether it is part of the Alpha Centauri system. Sirius is a binary star system consisting of a white dwarf stellar remnant and a white main sequence star about 25 times brighter than the sun. Sirius is one of our closest stellar neighbors at about 8.6 light years away. It is the brightest star in the night sky.
How many stars reside within 5 parsec of the sun?
Within 5 parsecs of the Sun, there are about 20 known stars. This region is part of the local stellar neighborhood, which includes the closest stars like Proxima Centauri, Alpha Centauri A and B, and others. The number is relatively small due to the vast distances between stars in our galaxy.
