how far is it from the earth to the star vega?
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My brain is saying, "4 light years" but I could be wrong about that. Been a while since I read "Contact" by Carl Sagan (part of which takes place around Vega).\n\nWait, wait ... let's Wikipedia this together. Let's see ... click, click ... v-e-g-a ... read, read ...\n\nWe, the jury, find Vega to be 25.3 light years from Earth.
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Mercury is 57,910,000 km or 36,001,813 miles from the Sun, on average. It does vary by several percent because Mercury has a rather eccentric orbit.\n\nThe Earth orbits the sun at an average distance of 149,600,000 km or 93,004,167 miles. So the distance between Earth and Mercury is only about 57 million miles when the Earth and Mercury are on the same side of the Sun and about 129 million miles when they are on opposite sides of the Sun.
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The average distance is 238,855 miles (384,400 km). \n\nHowever, because its orbit is not circular, the distance varies between perigee (225,700 miles, or 363,300 km) and apogee (252,000 miles, or 405,500 km).
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According to Celestia it's 431.44 light years. Be sure and pack a lunch.
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The Distance of Uranus (Herschel) from the Sun is = 3,004,000,000 Kms. or 1,867,000,000 Miles.\nThe Distance of Neptune from the Sun is = 4,537,000,000 Kms. or 2,819,000,000 Miles.\nTherefore the distance BETWEEN THESE TWO PLANETS IS=1,533,000,000 Kms. Or 952,000,000 miles.\nThese figures are for the maximum distances only. The figures for the average and the minimum distances between them will be different.(22 February 2006)
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At 09:38am EDT on May 15, 2006, the planets were not aligned, not even close--the planets were all over the sky.\n\nIn order along the ecliptic, starting with Aires (where the sun is) and going around through Pisces, etc. we have:\n\nMercury, Venus, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Jupiter, Saturn, Mars\n\nSaturn and Mars were about 17 degrees apart, but everything else was even farther apart.  Saturn and Jupiter were farthest apart, at 96 degrees.
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Is it the satellite of Saturn you're talking about? I think it's 5150 km/3200 mi (0.404 of Earth's)
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If you write the number sequence 0,3, 6, 12, 24, 48, 96, and add 4 to each number (4, 7, 10, etc) then divide by ten, you get the distance of each planet from the Sun, measured in astronomical units (1 a.u.=93 million miles=150 million kilometers).  This works out as Mercury 0.4, Venus 0.7, Earth 1.0, Mars 1.6, --- 2.8, Jupiter 5.2, and Saturn 10.0  This works out pretty accurately, but there was nothing at 2.8. Herschel discovered Uranus in 1781 at 19.6, right where another planet was supposed to go according to the Titius rule.   When Ceres was discovered in 1801, it was at 2.72, filling the gap.  Neptune, however is not near 38.8, but at 30.  Astronomers now believe the "law" is either a coincidence, or the result of billions of years of gravitational interactions.
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Pluto — Distance From Sun: 5 913 520 000 KM
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The first step was to use Kepler's laws to get relative distances between the planets and the sun. So, it was known that mercury orbited at a distance of 40% of the earth's before the actual distances were known.\n\nAfter that, the actual distance to *one* object orbiting the sun was enough to give all the distances. Historically, that was done by paralax with asteroids that came close to the earth. Today it is done by bouncing radio beams off of other planets such as Venus and measuring the time it takes for the reflected beam to get back to us. Various probes also give a distance calibration.
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The red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, part of the Alpha Centauri star system, is the nearest star to the Sun. As the name suggests, it is located in the constellation of Centaurus. Proxima Centauri was discovered in 1915 by Robert Innes while he was Director of the Union Observatory in Johannesburg, South Africa.\n\nProxima Centauri is roughly 4.22 light years from Earth, or 270,000 times more distant than the Sun.
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The nearest star, the Sun, is 93 million miles from earth. The second closest, Proxima Centauri, is a small, red star at 4.2 light years.
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The diameter of the Earth's orbit around the Sun is about 300,000,000 kilometers
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Venus is closer to the Earth than Mars is.
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The average distance from the Moon to the Earth is 384,403 kilometers (238,857 miles), and its orbit is elliptical.
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Pluto is 4,583,000,000 miles from the sun at maximum; 2,757,000,000 at minimum.  Since Neptune goes out as far as 2,824,000,000 it is occasionally closer in than Neptune!
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the polaris star system is about 430 lightyears from earth.\n\nhttp://skyandtelescope.com/printable/news/article_1658.asp