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1 A Light Year is defined as.
The distance light travels in a year Perspective The Voyager is traveling 38,000mph. At that speed it would take it 150,000 years to get to Proxima Centuri Proxima Centuri is 4.3 light years away. To walk an equivalent distance a person would have to walk 944 million times around the the Earth

2 The speed of light In one second light can travel around the equator 7.5 times Light travels at 186,000 miles a second. Or 669,600,000 mph It travels about 6,000,000,000,000 miles a year The next star is 4.2 light years away

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4 Orion (See Web below)

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6 Orion Are the stars of this constellation close together?

7 Orion Beetle juice is one of the brightest stars in the sky.
It is 427 light years away Or 2,560,000,000,000,000 miles

8 Are these stars close together?

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10 On the String scale model. The next closest star is 250 miles away!!


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