A family friend once told us a comparison of how far away the closest star is
he said something like: "if from here all the way at the end of the table is the moon, then the closest star is all the way to new york" (we were in Cali)
and i was wondering if anyone could tell me the comparison exactly 'cause it'sr eally cool! :-)
2007-08-13 05:36:55 · 6 answers · asked by Katie 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
The closest star is the Sun. It's about 93 million miles, or 8.33 light minutes away.
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2007-08-13 05:45:41 · answer #1 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow. You ask an basic question and you get a competition! the closest movie star is Proxima Centauri, 4 gentle years away. the gap from Earth to the sunlight, approximately ninety 3 million miles, is observed as the Astronomical Unit, AU. It happens that the kind of AU in a gentle 3 hundred and sixty 5 days is almost equivalent to the kind of inches in a mile. think of the Earth purely one inch from the sunlight. At this scale the Earth is smaller than a bacterium and the sunlight is decrease than 1000th of an inch in the time of, in straight forward terms a speck of airborne dirt and mud. The orbit of Pluto might extra healthful interior of a guy's outstretched palms, approximately six ft. Proxima Centauri is yet another speck of airborne dirt and mud 4 miles away.
2016-10-15 04:37:44 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The closest star to Earth, besides the Sun, is Proxima Centauri, about 4.2 light-years away. It is a red dwarf star, meaning it is fairly cool and small. Planets may be orbiting Proxima Centauri, but we have not found any yet.
Proxima Centauri, although in a triple-star system, is trillions of miles away from the other stars in its system. A planet orbiting Proxima Centauri would not have triple sunsets. It would have single sunsets with a pair of really bright stars in the sky.
2007-08-13 08:38:40 · answer #3 · answered by Dystopian J 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Closest to us- the Sun~ 93 million miles away
Closest to the Sun- Proxima Centuri~ 4.22 light years away
2007-08-13 08:38:49 · answer #4 · answered by Paul H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Proxima Centauriof the group Alpha Centauri is about 4 light years distance, or about 3.8x1016 m.
2007-08-13 05:42:33 · answer #5 · answered by most important person you know 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the sun - 93,000 (average) miles away, or 8.33.... light minutes (8 minutes 20 seconds)
thats like traveling from here to the moon and back 332.143 times
2007-08-13 06:58:47 · answer #6 · answered by mcdonaldcj 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋