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The next nearest star in our Milky Way Galaxy is Alpha Centauri. It is about 41,000,000,000,000 km. Using the scale from Procedure B, calculate how far Alpha Centauri would be on our scale. Show your work!

The farther away a star is, the less its parallax. The light year is a unit used to express stellar distance, which is the distance light travels in a year, which is approximately 9.5 trillion kilometers (5.8 trillion miles). The parallax angles are very small. Proxima Centauri is the parallax angle nearest to the star. It is less than one second or arc, which equals 1/3600 of a degree. A human finger is roughly 1 degree wide. The distances to stars are so large that conventional units such as kilometers or astronomical units are often too cumbersome to use.

it is life, Mama!” Mama: “Oh—so now its life. Money is life. Once upon a

“Yes sir will do.” With that the Commander saluted and did an about face and left the office. Commander Hardy knew exactly where the Marine Company commander was, they had set up a command post near the front gate. The purpose of that was to be able to react as quickly as they

38.  You are observing a star about 950 trillion km (100 lightyears) away. How old is the most recent information you can get about this star?

“General Scheisskopf?” he inquired unsuspectingly of the sergeant in his new office who brought him word of the order that had come in that morning. “You mean Colonel Scheisskopf, don’t you?”

A common theme in pop-culture is that of space travel on an interstellar scale; travelling between solar systems. However, whilst this can make for excellent science-fiction, the closest star system our own miniscule system, is Alpha Centauri which happens to be 4.22 light-years away (Sessions, 2015).

Frantically, he gathered his pistol in his hands, having no idea if the same thought would occur to his squad. Marus craned his neck, and the Solari-MC47 transport craft sat perched hidden behind a blue mist. Ahead, Cyblene-V purge sentries avalanched over a nearby hill ready to stampede his squadron into the dust. His heart hammered tense and pulsing in his chest. In the distance, the he could hear the Cyblene’s boots scraping the ground and marching right for him. When Marus recovered his footing, he propped his arm on the MC47’s cockpit door and then swung it hard on its hinges.

The three of us will be traveling a speed of 25,000 miles per hour and will take us 1,864 hours and 44,756 days to get to each planet. 7,205,600,000 is the total miles it will take us, our initial departure date from Earth is in March 2016. -

4) Light Travels at 299 792 458 m/s but because of the planets’ orbit the length of the route can vary. The closest approach would take 182 seconds; however, the farthest approach would take 1,342 seconds. Therefore, on average the time is 751 seconds.

We would need to calculate the actual speed of the spacecraft toward us. Then subtract this value from c. Using this as the alien value of c will allow us to calculate all distances and times in the moving frame accurately.

. Chapter Two . “Carter, what are you doing in my office? And Juliana, you too, what are you doing here?” Carter’s older brother, Max Cooper glared at us angrily. “I thought I banned you from this place after the last time.” I cringed. The last time we were here Carter and I -mainly me- accidentally let lose a creepy beast thing that had been terrorizing and scaring people, the CMTHOE had caught it a few days earlier and locked up until they could send it back to its homeworld. And we had almost set it free again. “Get out now.” Max ordered. “No,” Carter said, “Max please just hear me, us out.” “I said, get out my office.” “Actually,” informed Carter, “You said, “Get out now.” Max glared at

I casually walked there just to tick off Pierson. “Move it Daniels and Zussman I don’t have all day” he said in a rather demanding manner. I hadn’t noticed it, but my friend Zussman had glided in behind me. Suddenly a brisk feeling filled the air as we entered the rather cadaverously quiet board room. Davis who was the major general gave us the entire scoop.

This 'blink of an eye' delay was calculated to represent a maximum distance of 19,000 miles (30,000 km), impossible to resolve at the distance of V404 with any current telescope.

“Hi, my name’s Megan and I’m with the school newspaper. Could I ask you a couple of questions?”