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Because they are so far away. Light travels at approximately 186,000 miles per second. Our nearest star Alpha Centauri, is about 4.5 light years, so it takes light (eg the Stars glow) four and a half years to reach us.

A rough distance to Alpha Centauri is.....

26,000,000,000,000 - 26 Trillion miles... and that's our nearest!!

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