If you find a place where the sky is good and dark and you know where to look, you can see the
Andromeda Galaxy in the night sky. It looks like a fuzzy patch of dim, hazy light. It's actually a
galaxy of hundreds of billions of stars, completely outside of the Milky Way galaxy that we live in.
The distance to the Andromeda Galaxy is usually given as a couple of million light years.
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Do you mean star? The nearest visible star is Alpha Centauri.
Alnilam, a bright star in the Orion constellation, is approximately 1,344 light-years away from Earth. It is the middle star in Orion's Belt and is classified as a blue supergiant. Its distance makes it one of the more distant stars visible to the naked eye.
The binary system of Alpha Centauri has the closest stars to the Sun that are visible, at about 4.4 light years away, and appear as a single star - and probably gravitationally bound to that system, another star Proxima Centauri is still closer to us at about 4.2 light years, and is thus the closest star to our Sun but is not visible to the naked eye.
Yes, the North Star (Polaris) can be seen from England with the naked eye. It is located close to the north celestial pole, making it visible from most of the northern hemisphere including England.
Scheat, also known as Beta Pegasi, is approximately 196 light-years away from Earth. It is a red giant star located in the constellation Pegasus. Its distance makes it visible to the naked eye, appearing as one of the brighter stars in the night sky.
Do you mean star? The nearest visible star is Alpha Centauri.
The distance to the farthest visible star from Earth is about 9,000 light-years.
Mercury, Neptune, and Pluto are not visible to the naked eye due to their distance from Earth or brightness levels. Uranus can sometimes be visible to the naked eye under very dark skies, but it is challenging to see without a telescope.
The faintest star visible to the naked eye typically has an apparent magnitude of around 6. This is near the limit of human eye sensitivity under optimal viewing conditions.
The farthest star visible to the naked eye is V762 Cas in the Cassiopeia constellation, located approximately 16,308 light-years away from Earth.
Spica is a bluish-white star, visible to the naked eye in the constellation Virgo.
Mercury is about one fifth as bright as the faintest star visible to the naked eye from Earth.
Alnilam, a bright star in the Orion constellation, is approximately 1,344 light-years away from Earth. It is the middle star in Orion's Belt and is classified as a blue supergiant. Its distance makes it one of the more distant stars visible to the naked eye.
The binary system of Alpha Centauri has the closest stars to the Sun that are visible, at about 4.4 light years away, and appear as a single star - and probably gravitationally bound to that system, another star Proxima Centauri is still closer to us at about 4.2 light years, and is thus the closest star to our Sun but is not visible to the naked eye.
Yes, the North Star (Polaris) can be seen from England with the naked eye. It is located close to the north celestial pole, making it visible from most of the northern hemisphere including England.
Betelgeuse is a red supergiant star located in the constellation Orion. It is one of the largest and brightest stars visible to the naked eye from Earth.
The farthest star visible to the naked eye is V762 Cas in the constellation Cassiopeia, which is approximately 16,308 light-years away from Earth.