what is the furthest known star from our solar system?

Answer 1

The furthest "known" star...or furthest star, period? It's fairly certain that there are stars all the way to the known edge of our universe (and perhaps beyond), some 13 billion light years.

Answer 2

While I liked "Tom Cruise", as an answer... The problem with this question is that, due to the speed of light, when we look farther and farther into the universe, we look the same distance (Is why it's called a 'light year') into the past. Now, presumably the Big Bang was about 15 billion years ago, and if we were at one end of the universe, we would have been flung there at nearly the speed of light, everything in every direction would be redshifted, to calculate distance. Now, once you look far enough away/back in time, objects redshift down into the radio frequencies, for one thing, and they become so 'old' that stars weren't even forming yet, and for another, they're also so old that whatever star you're seeing probably doesn't exist anymore. That said, I've heard that the OLDEST KNOWN star is He1327 - 2326, but it's not particularly far away.

Answer 3

farthest star we know about

One of the farthest stars that I know about is called 'V12' or Variable 12, in the galaxy NGC 4203. This galaxy is located 3.2 million parsecs away or 10.4 million light years away and is one of the brightest individual stars in that galaxy. Out of the billions of stars in a typical large galaxy, only a handful are the most individually luminous. These are the individual stars that can be seen over intergalactic distances.

http://www.astronomycafe.net/qadir/q615.html

Farthest regions
The point at which the solar system ends and interstellar space begins is not precisely defined, since its outer boundaries are delineated by two separate forces: the solar wind and the Sun's gravity. The solar wind extends to a point roughly 130 AU from the Sun, whereupon it surrenders to the surrounding envionment of the interstellar medium. It is generally accepted, however, that the Sun's gravity holds sway to the Oort cloud. This great mass of up to a trillion icy objects, currently hypothetical, is believed to be the source for all long-period comets and to surround the solar system like a shell from 50,000 to 100,000 AU beyond the Sun, or almost a quarter the distance to the next star system. The vast majority of the solar system, therefore, is completely unknown; however, recent observations of both our solar system and others have led to an increased understanding of what is or may be lying at its outer edge.[24]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_system

Answer 4

Let's assume our Sun is the farthest Star from the view that this question above is being asked from the furthest known star in the Universe. That would be the only correct answer as we know for sure we are here, and knowing that much we can then say with out doubt the Sun is the farthest Star from the the farthest Star.

Answer 5

In October 1996 a group of astronomers from the University of Hawaii discovered what is now believed to be the furthest observable object in our solar system, named TO66. It is one of the brightest trans-Neptunian objects known to date. It is at a mean distance of 45 AU from the Sun and is about 1.5 million times fainter than the faintest star visible by naked eye.

Answer 6

Your question poses a dilemma . Even if I were to know the precise answer I am aware that that answer is billions and billions year old. I am not only sure but convinced that the answer has already become anachronistic long back and can hardly be given out now as The Answer.The farthest star, whatever its name is or was, has long back explded and must have become a supernova or just put out.Because the star we supposedly see at the place billions of light years away menas that the ray of light coming from it had reached us billions and billions light years after it emanated from there. Many literally many things have happened in the meantime and for aught we know the start might have already flickered out.So excuse me if I am not able to answer to your apparenly very simple but in fact the most complicated question. I am not Dharmraj who even if he knew that it was an elephant bearing the name of the son of their guru Drona had died and the son himself he told a falsehood leading to Drona's death and the defeat of the Kauravas in Mahabharat..Sorry.

Answer 7

the furhtest the telescopes have viewed the past is 12 billion years. The view contains billions and billions of stars. So, we don't really know what the furthest known star is because while we've seen it, we don't know we've seen it, yet we know it in the sense we are aware that it belongs in the farthest seen galaxy.

Answer 8

The solar system is, by definition, the system around our star. Thus the ONLY star in the solar system is the sun.

Answer 9

The most powerful telescopes and observatories havn't even come close to seeing the edge of the universe, if there is one, so no one will ever know what the furthest star from us is.

Answer 10

I think the question would be unresolved, i mean they can only look so far, and yeah this star may seem farther because it appears smaller, but maybe the star beside it is actually farther but much larger and appears closer, so I don't think they would have an exact answer, just a high paid scientist making an assumption.