What is the closest star to earth, and how far away is it?

What is the name of the closest star?What is the closest star to earth, and how far away is it?Besides the sun, Proxima Centari is closest. About four light years away. (only visible from the southern hemisphere though). Actually Alpha Centauri is a three-star system. Alpha Centauri -C is the closest of the three to earth.What is the closest star to earth, and how far away is it?
Alpha Centauri, about 4 light years away.What is the closest star to earth, and how far away is it?(m)



Technically, the sun is the closest star to the earth. It is approx. 8 light minutes away from the earth. This means it would take light 8 minutes to travel the distance.

The other star you are referring to is Alpha Centauri and is 4.3 light YEARS away. I hope this settles the debate.What is the closest star to earth, and how far away is it?
It's called the SUN and its 93million miles awayWhat is the closest star to earth, and how far away is it?the sun and it is 8 light minutes away
the closest star to earth is the sun. it is 8.3 lightminutes away. the next closest star to earth is proxima centauri. it is 4.2 lightyears away.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun

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The closest star is the sun very simple.

Next comes Alpha Centauri
Our sun - 93 million miles. Otherwise Alpha Centauri - approximately 4.336 light-years awayWhat is the closest star to earth, and how far away is it?
The sun whisn is 93 million miles away
Proxima Centari, 4.1 light years.
The sun. 93 million miles.
sun...93 milloin miles
sun
Visible only from latitudes south of about 25掳 the star we call Alpha Centauri lies 4.35 light-years from the Sun. But it is actually a triple star system. The two brightest components Alpha Centauri A and B form a binary. They orbit each other in 80 years with a mean separation of 23 astronomical units (1 astronomical unit = 1 AU = distance between the Sun and Earth). The third member of the system Alpha Centauri C lies 13,000 AU from A and B, or 400 times the distance between the Sun and Neptune. Alpha Centauri C lies measurably closer to us than the other two: It is only 4.22 light-years away, and it is the nearest individual star to the Sun. Because of this proximity, Alpha Centauri C is also called Proxima (Centauri).