{"title":"Mission 1","authors":"Eyal Clyne","doi":"10.4324/9781351264006-9","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We measure the distance of stars from Earth in light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one year. Since light travels at a speed of 186,000 miles/second (300,000 kilometers/second), a star that is one light year away is actually 5.8 trillion miles (9.5 trillion kilometers) from us! The Sun is only 8 light minutes away. The closest star to us other than the Sun is Alpha Centauri, and it is 4 light years away. The most distant stars we can still see without a telescope are about 1000 light years away!","PeriodicalId":269366,"journal":{"name":"Orientalism, Zionism and Academic Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Orientalism, Zionism and Academic Practice","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351264006-9","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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We measure the distance of stars from Earth in light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one year. Since light travels at a speed of 186,000 miles/second (300,000 kilometers/second), a star that is one light year away is actually 5.8 trillion miles (9.5 trillion kilometers) from us! The Sun is only 8 light minutes away. The closest star to us other than the Sun is Alpha Centauri, and it is 4 light years away. The most distant stars we can still see without a telescope are about 1000 light years away!
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