The closest star to Earth, other than the Sun, is Proxima Centauri, which is part of the Alpha Centauri star system. It is located approximately 4.24 light-years away from Earth. Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf star and is not visible to the naked eye.
No. Venus is a planet, not a star. The closest star to Earth is the sun.
Planets are tremendously closer than the stars are. Even the closest star (other than the sun, which is also a star) is tens of thousands of times farther away than the most distant planet in our solar system.
No. There are others far larger and brighter. Just happens to be the closest.
It isn't, really. It is the nearest star that's similar to our own Sun. (The one star closer, Proxima Centauri, is a red dwarf too small to be seen with the naked eye.) Other than that, there are probably a billion other stars in the Milky Way just like it.
what is unusual about the sun compared to many other stars ?????#
Because it is closer to the earth than any other star.
The Sun is the closest star to Earth. The next closest star is 4.2 light years away. It is a red dwarf called Proxima Centauri.
Its the closest star to us, so it appears brighter.
Alpha Centauri
Because it is closer to the earth than any other star.
It is four times as brighter. It is four times as brighter.
The closest star to the Earth, other than our own Sun, is the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri. It is about 4.22 light years away from us.The second closest star to the Earth (apart from the Sun) is Barnard's Star, a red dwarf. It is about 5.96 light years (about 35.0 trillion miles or 56.3 trillion kilometers) away.
If by star system you mean more than one star but not a galaxy then Alpha Centauri is the closest star system
Our suns light takes 8. some odd minutes to reach the earth and the is traveling at 299 792 458 m / s... and that is the closest star... other than that the other closest star is about 10 light years away... meaning it would take ten years traveling that fast to reach that star... so to the sun... i would say a few months, but to the closest star other than the sun... a few decades :/ so a long time ha
Because the Sun is the closest to the Earth.
The sun (also known as Sol), which is also a star, is the closest to Earth. Other than the sun, the closest star is called Proxima Centauri, and it is about four and a half light years away, or about 32 trillion miles away. That's the closest.
No. Venus is a planet, not a star. The closest star to Earth is the sun.