SCIENCE
PHYSICAL SCIENCES
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20
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60
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50
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40
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Detailed explanation-1: -Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our own, is still 40, 208, 000, 000, 000 km away.
Detailed explanation-2: -The closest star to us is actually our very own Sun at 93, 000, 000 miles (150, 000, 000 km). The next closest star is Proxima Centauri. It lies at a distance of about 4.3 light-years or about 25, 300, 000, 000, 000 miles (about 39, 900, 000, 000, 000 kilometers).
Detailed explanation-3: -The closest star, Proxima Centauri, is 4.24 light-years away. A light-year is 9.44 trillion km, or 5.88 trillion miles. That is an incredibly large distance. Walking to Proxima Centauri would take 950 million years.
Detailed explanation-4: -To put this in perspective, the distance from the Sun to the Earth is 93, 000, 000 miles (149, 598, 000 kilometers)-so far that it takes light about 8 minutes to travel here from the Sun. Proxima Centauri is 268, 770 times farther away, taking light over 4 years to cover this distance.