The stars we see at night are nearby stars in the Milky Way. The north star, Polaris, is 430 lightyears away, so its light takes 430 years to reach us. As contrast, the Milky Way is 100,000 lightyears across, and the nearest major galaxy is 2,200,000 lightyears away.
Light from the sun because all light travels at the same speed, and the sun is the closest star to the earth, so therefore the light from the sun reaches the earth before light from other (further away) stars
Around 90 light years away. There is no exact answer because the stars that make up the big dipper are different distances from the sun. Name and distance of the stars that make up the Big Dipper. Mizar 78 light years Merak 79 light years Megrez 81 light years Alioth 81 light years Phecda 84 light years Alkaid 101 light years Dubhe 124 light years
The planet closest to the Big Dipper in our solar system is Earth. The Big Dipper is just a pattern of stars in the constellation Ursa Major, whereas planets like Earth orbit the Sun.
No, the Big Dipper is a constellation.Constellation means stars together and from Earth they appear in the same part of the sky but from another place in the galaxy the might not.
They are about 25.6 light years apart in the earths sky.
The stars from the Big Dipper are approximately 80 light years away from Earth, meaning it takes 80 years for the light from those stars to reach us. This means that the light we see today from the Big Dipper actually left those stars 80 years ago.
All stars twinkle in some way. This effect occurs because the stars are so far away from the earth that the light they emit actually bends a bit in Earth's atmosphere thus producing a wavering light. So yes, the stars of the little dipper do twinkle.
The Big Dipper is not a single object, but an asterism or pattern of stars in the constellation Ursa Major. The stars in the Big Dipper are at different distances from Earth, so it doesn't have a specific size in terms of light years across.
There is no single number that describes a distance between the earth and that, or any other constellation. The big dipper is a pattern of stars visible in the skies of the northern hemisphere. Its seven stars are not actually associated with each other and are at widely differing distances from the earth, ranging from 58 to 124 light years.
i cant say because the little dipper is made op of many differt stars and alls 7 stars r different light years away. 4 example, the star kochab is 126 light years away and the star pherkad is 480 light years away.
The Big Dipper (and other constellations) are made up of stars that are difference distances from Earth. Every star that makes up the Dipper is a different distance. It only looks like the big dipper from where we are.
Megrez the Faintest of the Big Dipper Stars is 66 light years away.
No. If you see a star flicker, chances are you are not seeing something that happened to the star itself, but a result of light being distorted as it travels through Earth's atmosphere. Anyway the stars in the big dipper are at different distances from Earth. It's not as though light takes 139 years to reach us from all of them.
No, the Big Dipper does not emit its own light. It is actually a pattern of stars in the sky that appear to form a ladle shape. These stars reflect light from other sources in space.
Light from the sun because all light travels at the same speed, and the sun is the closest star to the earth, so therefore the light from the sun reaches the earth before light from other (further away) stars
Light travels at about 300,000 metres per second. The time taken for that light to reach us would depend on the stars distance.
The Little Dipper is a constellation, a patterns of stars in the night sky that people pick out. It is not possible to give a distance of a constellation from Earth because it consists of many stars at very different distances from the earth. For example, Polaris, the brightest star in that constellation, is about 433 light years from Earth. But the second brightest star, Beta Ursae Minoris (also called Kochab) is about 131 light years from earth. The third brightest star is 487 light years away