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How long would it take to reach Proxima Centauri at a rate of 40000 miles per hour?
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∙ 8y ago
Proxima Centauri is a little more than 4.2 light years away, which works out to about 25 trillion miles. It would take 625 million hours to cross this distance. In other words a little more than 71,000 years.
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∙ 9y agoJust divide the distance by the speed. If the distance is in miles, and the speed is in miles per hour, then the result of the division will be in hours.
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About 4.2 years.
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4.37 years. the star is Alpha Centauri ---- That's wrong. The closest star is the sun and it takes 8.3 minutes for light to reach us. when phrased nearest star it can be a trick question.. Alpha Centauri is the nearest star besides the Sun.
How long would it take light to travel from the Sun to the nearest star?
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Can you reach first the star or the moon?
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Ask James Kirk - faster than light is science fantasy.
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Simply because it's a lot closer to us! The next-nearest star to us, Proxima Centauri, is about 271,000 times further away than the Sun. To put that in perspective, it takes light between 8 and 9 minutes to reach us from the Sun, and over 4.3 YEARS to reach us from Proxima Centauri! And most stars are much, much further away than that...
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4.0 light years away.
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