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Is it far from the stars?

There are stars in the universe that are so far away from us that we don't even have the ability to know their distance or set their number. But how far is the nearest star from Earth? The distance from the Earth to the Sun is 150 kilometers. Since light travels at 000 km/sec, it takes 000 minutes for it to travel from the Sun to the Earth.

The stars closest to us are Proxima Centauri and Alpha Centauri. The distance from them to the Earth is 270 times greater than the distance from the Sun to the Earth. That is, the distance from us to these stars is 000 times more than 270 kilometers! Their light takes 000 years to reach Earth. The distance to the stars is so great that it was necessary to develop a unit for measuring this distance. It's called a light year. This is the distance light travels in one year. This is approximately 150 trillion kilometers (000 km).

The distance to the nearest star exceeds this distance by 4,5 times. Of all the stars in the sky, only 6000 can be seen without a telescope, with the naked eye. Not all of these stars are visible from the UK.

In fact, looking at the sky and watching the stars, they can be counted a little over a thousand. A powerful telescope can detect many many times more.

Author: Likum A.

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