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Light-year
A light-year is the distance that light travels in a year. How many light-years are we away from the nearest star?
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It's a star that's not often seen at night.Answer
About 8 light-minutes (or 8/526,000th of a light-year) since the nearest star is our own Sun. The second nearest star is about 4.2 light-years away or 25 trillion miles.Hide Hint Show Hint Hide Answer Show Answer
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Zero. The question was how many light years, the implication being that it is at least 2. Maybe instead just say, "How far..."
What about the sun?
I knew it was the sun...
o thats good i like a trick/science teaser i forgot the sun i was thinking of the other star.
Cool!
Cool!
good teaser, I liked the trick awnser
I knew that!
i knew that. This was easy(but still good and tricky)and isnt it 1 AU or something away in distance
not bad..but i didnt get it....
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