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How far is the stars from the sun?

Updated: 8/10/2023
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Stars are everywhere in our Universe.

The closest is our Sun at about 8.3 light minutes away.
The next closest, is Proxima Centauri at 4.2 light years.
The furthest star in our Galaxy is about 75,000 light years away.

The furthest galaxy so far found is IOK-1 at 12.9 billion light years.

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The stars aren't any set distance from the Sun. They are all different distances and brightnesses, a star may appear to be small and dim, next to a large bright star, but the stellar luminosity can be much greater than the close star meaning that it is actually brighter even though it doesn't appear that way. This is called apparent brightness vs. the absolute brightness. They are constantly moving so they have no set distance. Hubble's law explains how an object that is farther away must e moving faster. You can determine this by measuring parallax, or parsecs, which also determines the stellar luminosity. So take that into mind and I hope it helps!

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The stars light is very bright. The light is so bright that we can see them in the night's sky. they our shine everything else.

The light travels from the star in straight lines. The telescopes in space pick up the light from the different stars to show a picture. However this is a picture of the past as the light has taken a long time to travel to the telescope.

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Most stars are in other galaxies than ours (the Milky Way) and are billions of light-years away. The sun is the closest star, 93 million miles from Earth, and the next closest is Proxima Centauri which is four and a half light-years away. A light year is about seven trillion miles. Stars are extremely far away.

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The stars you see with the unaided eye are relatively close neighbours in our galaxy. The nearest is about 4 light years away (compare the sun, about 8 light minutes away).

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After the sun, the next closest star to Earth is Proxima Centauri, at a distance of 4.243 light years, or just under 25 trillion miles away. Other stars are even farther away.

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If it's not too cloudy, you should.

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Billions, if not trillions of miles.

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