How far away is the closest star, besides ours.?
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Alpha Centauri is the brightest star system (a triple star system) in the southern constellation of Centaurus, and contains the fourth brightest star in the night sky. It is the closet star system beyond our own at a distance of anywhere between 4.2 and 4.4 light years.
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Proxima Centuri. About 4.2 light years away. Check the foll link for more info\n\nst
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Jupiter is way too close to be using light years.\n\nOne "Astronomical Unit" is the earth-sun distance and is approximately eight light minutes. Jupiter orbits at about five A.U. from the sun.  So even when Earth and Jupiter are at their most distant I would still expect that distance to be less than one light hour.
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Space detritus misses us constantly.  There's a near miss every 3 weeks or so (on average).  Thing is, the universe is mercifully large, and what is deemed CLOSE is close in terms of the size of our galaxy, but the odds of us being actually struck are low.  \n\nInteresting fact:  Hailey's Comet it supposedly going to finish it's fall in Iowa, some 3 million years from now.  Watch out!
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Sirius is also one of the nearest stars to Earth At a distance of 2.6 pc or 8.57 light years\nfor more information go to http://www.crystalinks.com/sirius.html\nhttp://www.google.co.in/search?q=distance%2Bsirius&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official
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the one that's closest to you perhaps??
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That would be OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb, a planet we belive to be orbiting around the star OGLE-2005-BLG-390L.  There is debate on if this detection is really a planet, as the technique used to find it was a one-shot event (gravitational micro-lensing), and can not be repeated.\n\nIf it is a planet it would be the most distant one we have ever found with a distance of between 18,200 and 24,800 light years away from us, in the direction of the galactic center.
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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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see a minor distance creat such a difrnc, 10/10
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Our local group is inside our galaxy. It is a group of nearby stars. Yes there are billions of other galaxies outside of our Milky Way, but there are none within our local group.
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The galaxy Abell 1835 IR1916 is reported to be 13,230 million light-years from us.\n\nRed shift is the main method of estimating distance from us. We can also measure distance by the apparent luminosity of certain objects, such as variable stars and supernovas.\n\nAs our telescopes look further and further away, we are also looking back in time. So what we see past the furthest galaxies would be gas, and beyond that is the cosmic background radiation from the time the universe cooled to the point where it ceased being a plasma.
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We can view quite a distance away (measured in light years) from our own solar system using the latest generation of telescopes and probes but we have not even yet begun to exit from our own solar system. Even the distance needed to escape our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is beyond our capability as of yet. We do not even know most of the fundamental questions pertaining the formation and existance of the galaxy such as dark matter. Our knowledge of the outer solar system stems from mostly interpretations of photos sent back by probes such as Voyager and the Hubble Telescope as well as the never generation of scanning tools but that is all for now. Other phenomenons we can speculate and conjecture using maths such as the existance of black holes. Maybe one day we may venture farther away but with problems even for a manned flight reaching Mars, that time will be long away indeed and it may never be possible to ever reach the outer limit of what we know as space for it is light years away and even now conjecture is whether there really is an outer limit to our universe as it is still expanding. As for other galaxies there are many abound ours is only one of millions, there are examples like the Crab Nebula etc.
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"A light year is the distance light travels in one year: about 9.461 × 10^15 metres or about 5.879 × 10^12 miles."\n\nFor some context, it is 4.22 light years to Proxima Centauri, the nearest star outside the solar system.
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First find the Big Dipper constellation (Ursa Major) Find the two stars farthest from the dipper handle. Draw an imaginary line from the bottom star through the top star and extend the line outward. The first bright star your imaginary line comes near is the North Star---that's north.\n\nThe website shown has a diagram of the above.
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Don't you mean 2nd "nearest" star? The Sun of course is the nearest. The 2nd nearest star from the Earth is the Proxima Centauri which is 4.2 light years away.\n\nI think astrologers haven't named or even determined the the farthest and second farthest stars from the Earth.
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(to the tune of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star")\n\nI know the planets one by one\nStarting with the one that's closest to the sun.\nMercury, Venus, Earth and Mars,\nAre the first four among the stars.\nJupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune\nAre the next planets in my tune.\nPluto's the farthest one from the sun.\nI know the planets one by one.\n\nIf you like it choose it as best answer...... It would be a "Thank You" for what I've done.
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The sun is the closest star to Earth.