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This depends on how fast you are travelling. The nearest star to our solar system is Proxima Centauri, which is located 4.2421 light years away (or 40,133,364,737,735km). The fastest man-made object to date is the Helios 2 solar probe, which had a speed of 252,800km/hr. If you travelled at this speed, it would take you 158755398.5 hours, or 6614808.3 days or 18122.8 years to get there.

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How long would it take light to travel from the Sun to the nearest star?

It would take light approximately 4.3 years to travel from the Sun to the nearest star, Proxima Centauri. This distance is about 4.24 light-years away, making it the closest known star to our solar system.


What would happen if you traveled to the next nearest star?

Traveling to the next nearest star, Proxima Centauri, would take thousands of years with current technology. The journey would require advanced spacecraft, sustainable life support systems, and protection from cosmic radiation. The effects of long-term space travel on the human body, such as muscle atrophy and potential radiation exposure, would also need to be addressed.


How long would it take to reach the largest star in your Solar System?

The largest star in our Solar System is the Sun. Since the Sun is about 93 million miles away from Earth and the speed of light is about 186,282 miles per second, it would take about 8 minutes for light (or any object traveling at the speed of light) to reach the Sun from Earth.


How long would it take to travel from earth to every planet in the solar system one at a time?

The time it would take to travel to each planet one at a time would depend on the distance between each planet, the speed of travel, and the alignment of the planets. On average, it could take several years to visit all the planets in the solar system due to the vast distances and differing orbits of each planet.


How long has Jupiter been in space?

Jupiter has been in space since the formation of the solar system, which is estimated to be around 4.6 billion years ago. It is one of the oldest celestial bodies in our solar system and has been orbiting the Sun for billions of years.

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How long would it take to travel the solar system at the speed of light to the nearest star?

About 4.2 years.


Why don't you travel outside of your solar system?

The solar system is huge. It would take a long time to even reach the edge of it. In 1977 a probe called Voyager 1 was launched. In 2012 it was thought that it had finally left the solar system. Now that is not even certain. So it would take a long time to leave it. To get to the nearest things outside of that would take long more than anyone could live, so nobody could live long enough to get anywhere near anything else beyond our solar system. Going in something like the Space Shuttles could take over 160,000 years to reach the nearest star.


How long would it take mankind to get to the nearest star?

That would depend on how fast it goes. But at a typical speed in the solar system of 20 miles per second it would take about 39,000 years.


How long would it take to get to the solar system if going 397 miles per minuet?

Well, not very long because we are already in the solar system!


How long would it take to get to a planet outside our solar system?

A long time.


How long does it take light to travel from Alpha Centauri the nearest star to our sun to our solar system?

It takes 4.37 years.


How long from earth to the solar system?

earth locates in the solar system


Is Orion costellation part of your solar system?

All constellations are a long long way away from our Solar System.


How long would it take to go on a tour around the solar system?

100 billion years


How long would it take to do a tour around the solar system?

Going by the speed of light, it'll take 8.5 hours to reach Pluto from the Sun, about the length of the solar system.


How long is the sun away the solar system?

a long, long away it takes a satalite 23600 years just to get through the whole solar system!


What do alien's from the solar system look like?

There are "aliens" in the solar system... as long as you're not referring to little green men that want to suck out our brains, they would be microscopic organisms living in icy objects in the solar system, I'm pretty sure.