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re: TIL that when you look in the night sky at the north star...
Posted on 11/21/25 at 10:17 am to LNCHBOX
Posted on 11/21/25 at 10:17 am to LNCHBOX
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but I think your distance is off by a few factors of 10.
I don't believe it is.
The closest star is 93 million miles away. That is 258k times less than your stated number of 24 trillion. Yes, that is several factors of ten.
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Posted on 11/21/25 at 10:17 am to nateslu1
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The closest star we can see, we see as it was 4 years ago.
The sun?
Posted on 11/21/25 at 10:39 am to tigercross
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The closest star is 93 million miles away. That is 258k times less than your stated number of 24 trillion. Yes, that is several factors of ten.
Feels pretty obvious the sun is not the star being referenced with that 24 trillion mile measurement.
Posted on 11/21/25 at 10:49 am to nateslu1
Voyager 1 is 1 light day away from earth. It has taken 48 years to reach that distance. It is 40,000 years from it's next target. A near-miss(1.6 light years) of the star Gliese 445.
Posted on 11/21/25 at 10:54 am to nateslu1
The source of light that we see in the sky at night often doesn’t even exist anymore.
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