Timeline for Exactly how far apart are nearby stars from one another? [duplicate]
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| Jul 29, 2020 at 21:04 | comment | added | Robbie Goodwin | @TylerH What might that mean, please? What's "parsec nonsense"? | |
| Jul 17, 2020 at 12:29 | history | closed |
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Duplicate of How can I measure the distance between two stars? [closed] | |
| Jul 17, 2020 at 8:57 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jul 17, 2020 at 5:20 | comment | added | TylerH | @RobbieGoodwin It probably conflates the two with some parsec nonsense :-) | |
| Jul 16, 2020 at 20:12 | comment | added | Robbie Goodwin | Speed, not distance is the relevant factor in space opera - else, we'd be there already - so how does your SF technology say travel works? | |
| Jul 16, 2020 at 13:26 | answer | added | KerrAvon2055 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 16, 2020 at 3:14 | comment | added | Halfthawed | @CGCampbell I meant galaxy. | |
| Jul 16, 2020 at 0:54 | comment | added | CGCampbell | @Halfthawed there is only one star in our solar system... | |
| Jul 15, 2020 at 22:23 | comment | added | Fattie | It looks like this widget does what you ask, but it is incredibly undocumented wolframalpha.com/widgets/… | |
| Jul 15, 2020 at 22:22 | comment | added | Fattie | wait ! worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/148584/9392 | |
| Jul 15, 2020 at 22:20 | comment | added | Fattie | Here - neoprogrammics.com/stars/distance_between_two_stars/index.php | |
| Jul 15, 2020 at 8:27 | answer | added | Ruadhan | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 14, 2020 at 23:15 | answer | added | Andrew Brēza | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jul 14, 2020 at 22:29 | history | edited | HDE 226868♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 14, 2020 at 16:40 | comment | added | James McLellan | @Smoggie Tom, if you have an iPhone, there's a tremendous app called "Solary System Scope" by "INOVE, s.r.o.". It has a 3D star map (starts on the solar system, just keep zooming out), range circles (so that you get an idea of distance), a pretty comprehensive catalog, and scales all the way out to the galactic arms. I WISH I'd have found it a long time ago. | |
| Jul 14, 2020 at 16:39 | comment | added | HDE 226868♦ | @SmoggieTom, would you mind clarifying whether you're looking for the distance between two specific stars or a general estimate of the distance between an average star and its nearest neighbor? I tried to address both in my answer, but it would nice to know which you're interested in so all the answers can focus on that. | |
| Jul 14, 2020 at 14:52 | comment | added | Escaped dental patient. | Not an answer, but NASA has a nice visualization here: nearest stars, no figures are given, but it helps as a starting point perhaps. | |
| Jul 14, 2020 at 14:08 | answer | added | Willk | timeline score: 13 | |
| Jul 14, 2020 at 13:59 | comment | added | DKNguyen | Don't forget binary star systems. Alpha Centauri is a mere 11 to 18AU! Closer than Neptune is to the sun. I didn't realize they could be so crazy close. | |
| Jul 14, 2020 at 13:57 | answer | added | HDE 226868♦ | timeline score: 52 | |
| Jul 14, 2020 at 13:38 | comment | added | John O | Towards the center of galaxies, star density increases, but hazards increase because of that. Out in the more pleasant part like where our own sun is located, single digit light years between most stars is the norm. And there is the possibility that there is one closer to us than Proxima (but that it's too dim to easily see unless you're looking for it). I don't know the specific distance between your two examples, but it won't be 22ly (the maximum possible). It won't be unrealistic for you to claim it's 3ly or 7, etc. | |
| Jul 14, 2020 at 13:32 | answer | added | The Square-Cube Law | timeline score: 30 | |
| Jul 14, 2020 at 13:25 | comment | added | Halfthawed | Are you looking for the average distance between stars or the normal range of distances between stars? Because the first one is kind of useless and the second one is gargantuan. And if you're looking for the distances for very specific stars within our solar system, that is, unfortunately, not a Worldbuidling question - just an astronomy one. | |
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| Jul 14, 2020 at 13:18 | history | asked | Smoggie Tom | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
