How many light years away is the nearest star?
People have been star gazing for thousands of years and maybe dreaming all this time of visiting other worlds. Now the Space Age has dawned and all these dreams are much nearer. But to reach other worlds we need mountains of know how and our space knowledge would be impossible without countless small facts gathered by countless generations of patient star gazers. Some smartie may tell you that the nearest star is about 92,300,000 miles away which is less that one sixty thousandth part of a light year. This smartie means to inform you that he knows that the sun is a star .. but Andy and most other people dislike smarties, even when they are correct: Naturally, you want to know the distance of the nearest star which appears in the night sky. Sad to say, we who live north of the equator never get a chance to see our nearest star neighbor. It appears only in the skies of the Southern Hemisphere. Its name is Alpha. Centanri which means that it is the A number one star in the constellation C
a 14-year exile in the forest.[2…] The people of Ayodhya the capital of his kingdom welcomed Rama by lighting rows avali of lamps deepa, thus its name, Deepawali, or simply shortened as Diwali need of turning away from the ruinous path of hatred.On this day Hindu merchants in North India open their new account books and pray for success and prosperity during the coming year.
