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If you were to model the Sun as a basketball, then our planet Earth would be about the size of an apple seed 30 yards away from it — and even the nearest other star (alpha Centauri, ... (The next-nearest white dwarf star orbits around the bright star Procyon, about 11 1/2 light-years away from us.) ... Ross 154 9.4 0.00002 0.0005...
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4.2 Light Years is approximately 24 Trillion miles. ... across the sky between 2 stars it of course also matters if 1 star is further away then the other. ...
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3. If the nearest star is 4.2 light-years away, then ... a. the star is 4.2 million AU away. ... e. the light we see left the star 4.2 light-years ago.
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astro.pas.rochester.edu/ast104/t1.html
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A3. If the nearest star is 4.2 light years away then ... a) the light we see left the star 4.2 years ago. b) the star is 4.2 million AU away. c) the star must have formed 4.2 billion years ago. d) all of these.
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www.as.utexas.edu/astronomy/education/spring01/lambert/...
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The nearest confirmed brown dwarf is 16 light-years away. The nearest known star is Proxima Centauri, at 4.2 light-years away. A light-year is the distance light travels in one year, about 5.88 trillion miles (9.7 trillion kilometers). ... "If this object is a brown dwarf, then it is the closest one, but we are not sure,"
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Pluto, one of the dwarf planets, has a minimum distance from the Earth of 28.6 AU (4.28 billion km or 2.66 billion miles). ... when did pluto change from a planet to a star? ... Pluto's surface gravity is 0.58 m/s2 (0.06 x Earth's), then, a 100 lbs object on earth would only weight 6 lbs on Pluto.
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The relative positions of all the stars could then be combined into an extremely accurate catalog of star positions across the entire sky. ... The nearest star is some 4.2 light years away, and that distance was known to within an accuracy of better than 0.1 light year.
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(Betelgeuse is 520 light years distant) a. 2465 AD b. 2985 AD c. 2040 AD d. 1976 AD; 4. In a dream, you land on a planet in a location such that all the stars you ... a star directly overhead (your zenith) remains stationary. ... a. 2 seconds b. about 1 hour c. 4 minutes d. 2 minutes;
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www.faculty.whatcom.ctc.edu/jrawlins/astro150/unit1qu.h...
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____ 5. If the nearest star is 4.2 light-years away, then .... If you were to construct a scale model of the solar system using the rubber ball to represent ...
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