The Sun is at a distance of 8 light-minutes; about 150 million kilometers. The next known star apart from our Sun, Proxima Centauri, is at a distance of 4.2 light-years.
The star nearest to the Earth is the Sun, roughly 93 million miles away, or 8.3 light-minutes.The next nearest star is the one known as Proxima Centauri, roughly 25,278,000,000,000 miles away,or 4.3...
-- 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...