I heard there so big and far away you can never get close to one.
2007-10-01 05:23:07 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
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2007-10-01 05:29:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Stars are very far away, in fact the nearest one takes light to travel 4 years. As a comparison, our sun is 95 million miles away and it takes light 8 minutes to reach us. It would take about 100 days for our fastest space probe (voyager one) to reach the sun at 36,000 mph. So think how long it would take to reach the neares star. Over a hundred thousand years. Thus, it is not impossible to reach a star, it just wouldn't happen within your lifetime, or your children's, or your grand children's. As for being burnt, if you posess a lead shield that is thick enough, you can survive the radiation. The surface of the sun is not that hot, only 15,000 degrees F. So your only danger would be radiation.
2007-10-01 12:55:08 · answer #2 · answered by sintosol2 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well not exactly, you can reach the sun pretty quickly and it's a star. But our sun not withstanding you could reach another star but you would be long dead by the time you got there if you craft didn't crash into something else on the way.
2007-10-01 13:05:09 · answer #3 · answered by Brian K² 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Never is a very large number and eventually they may get there,but not the people that started but several generations later.
2007-10-01 14:15:41 · answer #4 · answered by JOHNNIE B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stars are very far away, and you'd probably be burnt long before you actually reach one.
2007-10-01 12:26:07 · answer #5 · answered by shadow.kitty 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋