How many miles is it from Earth to the nearest star?

Answer 1

Discounting our Sun (which is also a star, and 93,000,000 Miles away from Earth) the nearest star is roughly 4.3 Light Years away from us. There are actually 3 stars in this category located fairly close to each other.

One person listed Venus as a star which is incorrect if we use the agreed upon technical definitions. While Venus is "called" the Evening and Morning Star, Venus is a planet and has no illumination of its own. All of the light from Venus is reflected back to us from the Sun. Venus is 81 percent as big as the Earth and is located 0.72 AU from the Sun (1 AU = 93,000,000 miles). The temperature at the surface of Venus reaches about 865 Degrees F. To prove my point, the surface temperature of most stars is way up in the thousands of degrees F. The surface temperature of our Sun, for example, has been determined to be 9,930 Degrees F.

In order to respond to your specific question, I offer the following table of distances to close or nearby stars:

4.24 Light Years Proxima Centauri (in Centarus)
4.37 Light Years Alpha Centauri (in Centarus)
6.0 Light Years Barnard's Star (in Ophiuchus)
7.8 Light Years Wolf 359 (in Leo)
8.2 Light Years Lalande 21185 (in Ursa Major)
8.5 Light Years Luyten 726-8 (with companion) (in Cetus)
8.6 Light Years Sinus (in Canis Major)
9.6 Light Years Ross 154 (in Sagittarius)

Ref: GUIDE TO SKYWATCHING, David H. Levy, Fog City Press
ASTRONOMY, Ian Ridpath, DK Publishing

So you can see that not all answers from Wiki are valid. You only get what you ask for from Wiki... Not a complete answer which gives you a totally revalent response.

Answer 2

The closest star to the Earth is the Sun.
The distance between the earth and the sun is not constant. The earth's
orbit around the sun is nearly circular, but not perfectly so. The earth
is actually closest to the Sun in the northern hemisphere winter.
On average, the distance between the earth and the sun is 93 million miles.

Answer 3

The distance between earth and the nearest star ( = the sun ) is 1500.000.000 km.
You can do the conversion to miles yourself.

Answer 4

The star closest to the earth is the Sun, which is, on an average, 929,50,000 miles away from the earth. This distance is also referred to as one Astronomical Unit.

Answer 5

Precisely 1AU (or Astronomical Unit) or the distance from the Earth to the Sun (which is the nearest star).

1AU = 93 million miles.

Answer 6

93 million miles. Our Sun is a star.
A yellow dwarf star to be specific.

Answer 7

Nearest star is the sun, it's one astromical unit away, eight light minutes approx 93 million miles.

Answer 8

As others have pointed out, the Sun is a star and is about:
93,000,000 miles away. But the closest OTHER star is 4.22 light years away. In miles, that is about:
24,800,000,000,000 miles.

Answer 9

the closest star,which would be the sun,is 93 million miles away from us

Answer 10

Ninety-three million