2007-11-04 18:42:47 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
The sun is the closet star to earth and is 149.6 million KM away.It takes light that the sun radiates approx 8 mins to reach earth
2007-11-04 18:49:07 · answer #1 · answered by DARREN A 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
* We live very close (500 lightseconds) to a star. This is probably a necessary condition for the originination and maintenance of life.
* Stars are very far apart (average about 8 lightyears for the closest dozen), compared to their size (about 2 lightseconds for the Sun); by a factor of 250 million or so.
* Many stars occur in multiple systems, shown here by the suffixes A, B and C from brightest to dimmest. In fact, about 55% of stars in this list are in multiple systems. The nearest star is a triple. And we may be missing many dim stars.
* Most of the nearby stars are dimmer (higher numbers for absolute magnitude) than our Sun, by factors of 100 to 10,000.
2007-11-05 02:58:38 · answer #2 · answered by Gerald 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The closest star to the Earth is our sun. Next in line is Alpha Centauri which is 4.37 light years away, about 25.8 trillion miles.
Although it appears to the naked eye as one star, it is actually a system of three stars.
It is known in the Southern hemisphere as the outermost pointer to the Southern Cross, but is too far south to be seen in the northern hemisphere.
2007-11-05 03:13:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
closest to what?
If you mean us, then the sun is closest.
the next closest star is barnard's star which is 4 light years away.
2007-11-05 06:58:04 · answer #4 · answered by whellad 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hang on a minute. This category is garden and landscape. Surely you're not basing your landscape design on the stars.
I know that they pyramids were built as a replica of the constellation of Orion. Are you planting shrubs and flowers to represent other heavenly bodies?
What a brill idea!
2007-11-05 17:14:55 · answer #5 · answered by Cliffe-climber 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the closest star to earth is our own SUN
2007-11-05 02:54:25 · answer #6 · answered by surman1972 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not counting the sun at 8 light minutes or 93 million miles on average (earth's orbit is elliptical not circular ). 7 light years
2007-11-05 02:51:54 · answer #7 · answered by Sid B 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you represent the that distance by x, it is the radius of a 109-sided figure whose circumference is represented by the radius of the circular hip pocket of a railway employee, whose wife is the sister of the regimental Seargent Major.
2007-11-05 02:57:32 · answer #8 · answered by Almax 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Think it's Alpha Centori about 100 million miles away at the speed of dark.
Not sure of the exact spelling of that but think it is CENTORI
2007-11-05 02:54:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The sun is our closet star....but i have no idea of the distance it is from us
2007-11-05 03:16:42 · answer #10 · answered by stormydays 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋