How long will the Sun have to travel in space for it to be in the vicinity of the constellation Hercules?
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The distance from the current position of our sun to the constellation Hercules is 24.7 light years or 259,218,478,000,000 kilometers.\n\nThere are two different speeds that our sun is measured at. The first is its velocity relative to the stars around it. This is measured as 20 km/s.  Using this figure, it would take 12,960,923,900,000 seconds or 821,976.402 years to reach Hercules, assuming the Hercules did not move (which it does).\n\nThe second speed is the sun's velocity relative to the galactic core.  This is 217 km/s.  At this speed, it would take 1,194,555,200,000 seconds or 75,758.1938 years to reach Hercules (same assumption as above).
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Depends on your location.  From the United States, you can find the constellation Scorpius low in the southern sky primarily during the summer months.  Currently (early April), it's at its highest around 5am DST.  Early next month, it will be most visible around 3am DST.  For each successive month, it's at its highest about two hours earlier than in the previous month, so by early August it will be best seen around 9pm DST.  It's low in the sky, however; even from the southern states, its brightest star Antares never rises higher than about 1/3 of the way from horizon (where the sky meets the ground) to zenith (directly overhead).\n\nA side-note; you may notice a very bright "star" this spring and summer, somewhat higher and to the right of Scorpius; this would be the planet Jupiter.\n\nA good site that generates a sky chart for any location can be found at:\nhttp://www.heavens-above.com
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CLOSEST?? to the sun?\nThat would be Mercury....
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About 92.9 million miles on average. This is also 147 million kilometers. The actual amount varies over time because the earth's orbit isn't a perfect circle. In astronomical terms, this is *very* close. If you made a scale model with the distance from the earth to the sun as 1 inch, then the distance to the nearest star (other than the sun) would be 4.3 *miles*.
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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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It takes light 8 minutes (plus or minus seconds) to travel from the Sun to the Earth. So if the sun 'Died' this second, it will take 8 minutes till we know about it, i.e. the lights go out and the heating is turned off.\n\nHopefully we will still have the stars and moon to merrily sooth us into our freezing tombs.
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The gravitational pull of the sun is stronger than that of the Earth. So your skeleton would probably end up in the sun after many, many light years.
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Acording to Kepler's first law of planetary motion, all objects obit other objects in eliptical paths.  This means that the distance from the earth to the sun is not constant.  The average distance is 149600 km or 92 957.1304 miles.  This means that it would take 1239.42 hours or 51 Days 15 hours.
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Maybe not right now, but it should be visible in the northern sky with binoculars over the next few weeks. It's in the constellation Corona Borealis, which puts it north of Jupiter. Jupiter is rising in the sky just before 10pm at the moment. \n\nIt's moving towards the Northern Triangle - close to Vega in Cygnus around May 7/8 and then below Deneb around May 12, and that, apparently, is it's closest pass to Earth. It may brighten to mag 5 or even mag 4 at this time, so you might even be able to see it without binoculars! Fingers crossed!\n\nIf you want to look, try to find a fuzzy indistinct object in your binoculars. That's the best giveway. Sometimes comets don't show a tail. \n\nThe following web-link is very useful I think. I will be out looking during the next few nights myself.
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The sun is 93 million miles from Earth on the average, since the Earth does have a slightly elliptical orbit. How long it takes to get there is kind of an incomplete question because it all depends what you want to do when you get there.\n\nIt wouldn't take long for a spacecraft to fly straight to the sun and either fall into it or zoom by and then off into space, but if you wan to launch a probe to study the sun you have to be more clever.  \n\nThe link below is information on the Ulysses probe sent out in 1990. Ulysses actually did something of a "bank shot" off of Jupiter in order to get into an orbit where it goes around the sun over its poles rather than around the middle, which is rather cool that it worked so well.  Imagine playing billiards on a table three miles long and two wide and sinking the eight in a corner pocket after banking off of two cushions -- and then multiply that by a million, and you have a good idea how difficult this stuff is.
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Distance From Sun is: 93,000,000 Miles
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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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exactly 27.3 days (i did an astronomy unit in science this year)\nbut if you just want to see it each night, it'll be every 27-28 days:)
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Well if it's directly at the sun, then I'd say no more than 10-15 seconds, but if you're just staring, but not exactly directly at it, I'd say roughly around 20-25 minutes.
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The diameter of the Earth's orbit around the Sun is about 300,000,000 kilometers
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yes it goes around the sun.\n\nBut the sun orbit in the universe means that we orbit alot more suns although it would take billions billion years to do so.
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The closest star besides the sun is Proxima Centauri or V645 Cen and is about 4.5 light years away.