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NEED HELP WITH LAST ONE LETTER P The closest star to Earth other than the Sun is

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NEED HELP WITH LAST ONE LETTER P

The closest star to Earth other than the Sun is It is about It takes light more than Its position among the background stars changes as The apparent motion of the nearby starts among the background of more distant stars, due to miles away. to get here from there the Earth's orbit around the Sun, is called The first time this was measured was in the year by He did this observing the star Using Earth-based telescopes gives stellar distances only up to about Telescopes In 1989, the ESA satellite are unhampered by by our atmosphere was able to measure distances up to In 2013, ESA launched the satellite that measured the distances to In 2014, the Hubble Space Telescope accurately measured the distances to a few stars light-years away from Earth, about

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The answer is 3066.014 parsecs

The Hubble telescope measured upto this distance in parsecs