What is the name of the closest star?
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Besides the sun, Proxima Centari is closest.  About four light years away.  (only visible from the southern hemisphere though).  Actually Alpha Centauri is a three-star system.  Alpha Centauri -C is the closest of the three to earth.
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the nearest star passing the solar system is barnard's star passing the solar system in a distance larger than 3 lightyears no earlier than 10.000 years in the future .. soo  no star in sight...\n\na dark object the size of jupiter ..hmm... \nthe direct gravitational influence of ALL yet known planets within the solar system can't match up with the suns gravitational force.\nThe whole system must have been stable since more than a billion years now (4 billion ?). A few years ago all planets where in a row and some people claimed we are about to have severe floodings cause of that.  nothing happens. \n\nif such a planet would appear it has loooooots of space to run through the system without hitting anything and it must come with the correct speed and the correct vector to get caught in an orbit. the chances are very very small that this is the case.\n\nif such a planet would cross near the earth i bet it would cross so fast that you are not even able to take out your camera to make a photo of it. And depending on simple newtonian mechanics the earth mass is high enough to have such a momentum that no major trajectory change should occur.\n\nwhat possibly happens is, that a jupiter sized mass running through the system would change trajectories of a few asteroids which may cross the planets path.\nthose asteroids may cause a concern, but as already mentioned above SPACE is huuughe the solar system has alot of it and the chances that such an asteroid hits our tiny blue pearl are really really small. \nIf you take a look at Nasa's NEO website you may freak out for having so many asteroids nearby but from statistics .. we get hit approx. every 300.000 years  soo .. <shrug>...  space is called space cause its basically empty space\n\nand if that is not enough\nthe oldest objects in space are 'globular clusters' like M13 for example. Those clusters are made of up to more than 100.000 stars which orbit each other in a relative small section of space without colliding since billions of years. If these objects exists since such a long time without destroying themselves in collisions, why then should a small body like jupiter should mess up our solar system which appears to be stable since at least 1 or 2 billion years ?\n\nchances are better to win the lottery, don't you think ?  ;-)
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Not often enough. When I was homeless living in my car, I would study the constellations, try to remember the name of each star in Orion. I had a star chart. If it were not for thieves, I would live in a tent again, watch the possums and raccoons come out at night, feed and watch the birds by day, and stare into the stars at night. My dream home though would have a lighthouse top with windows all around and a telescope. Enjoy your time outdoors, and try to learn the names of as many stars as you can, for me. I don't know when or if I'll ever get the time to enjoy them like I once did again.
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The link in the first answer doesn't work.\n\nOnly some of the stars in this constellation have names: \nAlrisha (Alpha Psc), aka Alrescha [Al Rescha, Rescha, El Rischa, Al Richa] or Kaitain or Okda (= the ropes).\nOkda (= Knot) \nFum al Samakah (Beta Psc)(=Mouth of the fish) \nTorcularis Septentrionalis (Omicron Psc) (=Of the northern wine/oil press)\nAlpherg or Kullat-Nunu \nvan Maanen's star
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All stars except the Sun appear to the human eye as shining points in the night sky that twinkle because of the effect of the Earth's atmosphere. Interferometer telescopes are required in order to produce images of these objects. The Sun is also a star, but it is close enough to Earth to appear as a disk instead, and to provide daylight.\n\nStars are not spread uniformly across the universe, but are typically grouped into galaxies. A typical galaxy contains hundreds of billions of stars. The majority of stars are gravitationally bound to other stars, forming binary stars. Larger groups called star clusters also exist.\n\nAstronomers estimate that there are at least 70 sextillion (7×1022) stars in the known universe [1]. That is 70 000 000 000 000 000 000 000, or 230 billion times as many as the 300 billion in our own Milky Way.\n\nThe nearest star to the Earth, apart from the Sun, is Proxima Centauri, which is 39.9 trillion kilometers, or 4.2 light years away (light from Proxima Centauri takes 4.2 years to reach Earth). Travelling at the orbit speed of the Space Shuttle (5 miles per second -- almost 30,000 kilometers per hour), it would take about 150,000 years to get there. Distances like this are typical inside galactic discs, where the Sun and Earth are located. Stars can be much closer to each other in the centres of galaxies and globular clusters, or much further apart in galactic halos.\n\nCheck the wikipedia link below.
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Pluto.\n\nPluto\nTiny Pluto is the last planet in our family. The dark, cold planet's average distance from the Sun is a little over 3.5 billion (3,500,000,000) miles. If you tried to step off this distance, you would be over two miles away from your Sun when you reached the location of Pluto. If you got on a jet and flew at 600 miles per hour from the Sun to Pluto, it would take 675 years. If you could drive the same distance, it would take over 5,700 years.
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look at the star on the left
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Star\nMountain\nMilk\nsee-not sure bout that \nhelp\nbread
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It should be visible from California at about 5:00am. Look for it near the constellation Leo.
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The North Star (Polaris) is at the end of the handle of the Little Dipper. The two stars at the end of the Big Dipper's bowl point to it.\n\nMost of the other stars of the Little Dipper are fairly dim, so you could have trouble making it out unless you're well away from urban light pollution. Polaris itself is almost as bright as the brightest stars in the Big Dipper, and should be easy to see. So you're probably just not looking in the right place.
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Some stars might have a solar system, but not all do.  Some stars are actually two "suns" orbiting around one another (called a binary star) but appearing to the unaided eye as a single star.  Some are even three stars together, such as alpha centauri, which is the closest "star" in the sky--though it is actually three stars that look like one.  Some are stellar clusters, where many of these "suns" are all bunched close enough to appear as one star.  Some are entire galaxies, with billions of stars, but so far away that they appear to be a single star from earth.  Some are stellar clusters, where many of these "suns" are all bunched close enough to appear as one star.\n\nSome things you might think are stars are actually planets.\n\nSome are dead "suns," where the fuel for the nuclear fusion that makes the sun burn has all been expended, leaving a big mass of iron, that glows white-hot for many years before turning dark.  If you look at these so-called "white dwarves" through a powerful telescope, you can see a faint ring of matter that has been blown away in the explosion that came when the star died.  Some stars are huge, and some are small.\n\nSome of the stars we have been able to see have solar systems of their own, which we detect by the slight wobble caused by the gravitational pull of the planet (or planets) as it orbits.
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The stars say ... No.\n\nNo, there's not.\n\nGood luck!
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The general term is double star. If the two stars are actually physically close so that they orbit each other, it is also called a binary star. Stars that appear close together but are actually at very different distances are called optical doubles.
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Most likely Venus, as those above me have stated, but Jupiter is also a possibility.  \n\nStarmaps are readily available on the internet, and that would tell you for sure. \n\nHowever, a more fun way to find out would be to take a telescope outside and look at the planet.  Even a very low-end model telescope will have the resolution to see the moons of Jupiter.  Watch it for a week, if you don't see any moons or the giant red spot, it's Venus.
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planets, stars, and quasars
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I think the star with the letter "A" then some numbers.I think
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Hi. A good one might be Regulus because it lies pretty close to the ecliptic and is very bright. But you can use any star. For much better accuracy scientists use quasars due to their vast distance. This eliminates parallax error.