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How far are the stars away from earth?

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-- The nearest one is about 93 million miles away. That's the one called the "Sun".

-- The next nearest one is in the constellation Centaurus. It's about 4.2 light years away.
That's about 24,691,000,000,000 miles.

-- The farthest ones that can be detected by today's best astronomical equipment
are about 14 billion light years away.
That would be around 82,302,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles.

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