A Light Year is a measure of distance. If a star is 61 light years away, then it would take light (or radio waves, which travel at the speed of light) 61 years to get there.
The sun is always by far the closest, regardless of time of day. The next nearest star is Proxima centauri, over 4 lightyears away.
Here's the example that illustrate what you just asked. I will be using this example from astronomy. When you look up the sky to the stars, you are literally seeing into the past. The distance from you to the star you are looking at is x lightyears away. Lightyear is distance light travles in 1 year. So if a star is, say 100 lightyears away from you, then you are seeing the state of the star that much time ago.
Albireo is the fifth brightest star in the constellation Cygnus.Although it appears to be a single star, it is in fact a binary star system.It is located about 390 light years from us.See related link for more information
Sorry, but this doesn't make sense! For a start, 'nebulae' is plural. And Cygnus isn't in a nebula. Cygnus (like all the constellations) is just a name given to a region of sky that appears to resemble some object or other from the arrangement of its stars. None of the stars in a given constellation usually have any connection with the others. They just lie in the same general direction. Deneb, the brightest star in Cygnus, is over 1000 lightyears away, but close to it (in the sky!) we have 61 Cygni, which is one of the closest stars to us, at about 11 lightyears. A constellation is a purely human construct, like (say) a country with its borders.
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it is a galaxy lightyears away
666 Lightyears
No. It is Buzz Lightyears catchphrase.
it is 4.24 lightyears away
over 9000 lightyears away
spica is the brightess star in virgo. it is blue. 200 lightyears away. it is 2400k
Temp.,Size, Brightness, And How Many LightYears Away The Star Is.
Number 61 is important because the 61nth book in the Bible has 61 verses, and its the only book with such a correspondence. The word ÔfearÕ is used 61 times in the New Testament and the words Ôeternally, star and freeÕ appear 61 times in the whole Bible.
I can't give you the answer in kilometres, but Wolf 359 is 7.78 lightyears from Earth
The nearest star to Earth is the sun, at a distance of 0.000016 light years from Earth. The next nearest star, Proxima Centauri, is about 4.2 light years away.
The sun is always by far the closest, regardless of time of day. The next nearest star is Proxima centauri, over 4 lightyears away.
it is 0.0000000406 lightyears away, it is pretty close.