How far away is the Nearest Star?
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Published 2018-08-26
All distances shown are straight line distances from my start location just south of Manchester in England. The actual distance travelled is larger. The nearest star is actually quite some distance away! And this is just the nearest star - some of the visible stars are many hundreds of times further and the centre of our own galaxy is 7,000 times further away just for starters.
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All Comments (21)
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I thought you were just gonna throw the ball to the other side of the park... But no, you drove from England to Spain.
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Wife: Where were you the past 4 days? Me: I was looking for the nearest star system.
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The rule of Youtube once again is applied here. No overly edited thumbnail; the video answers the title exactly and in a very interesting and intuitive way; it's short, given how far he had to travel. This is the video I hope people will find or get recommended when they're interested in the question.
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This really gives me early YouTube vibes I dunno why. Really 2008-2011 esque. Very informative video, and very simply made. Gotta love it
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He went across the continent to hold a golf ball infront of a camera. Give this man an applause
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Drove 700+ miles to make a 5 minute video. My hat goes off to you sir.
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What blows my mind is that the space between stars is so huge, 2 galaxies could pass through each other and the chances of 2 stars colliding from those galaxies is pretty much zero. Space is the perfect name for it.
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What's kind of crazy to me is that even though there is a possibility of other life in the universe, this representation of distance makes me realise that we are alone in a sense. Our current understanding of space travel will never allow us to venture this far, let alone further ventures.
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1200 km drive for one video, now that deserves a like
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I cant believe you went to Proxima Centauri with just your car.
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Before this video i lived with the fear of some star colliding with us. Now i can live my life without worries.
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This actually puts a real feeling behind the supposed immense scale of the universe. To think that a golfball would need to roll all the way over to Spain just to meet its neartest neighbour is scary as can be. Talk about isolation
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I wonder if he ever realized he could have used a grain of sand as the sun and just drove home.
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Son: Dad, how far is the Andromeda Galaxy? This man: Come, son. Let’s go for a drive
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any people that are struggling to wrap your head around this, picture you live in space and see the sun as a golf ball and earth as a gran of sand, you can travel to neptune in a 10 second walk. just imagine if you wanted to go visit your friend that lives around the nearest star, youd have to travel this long (1200 kilometres driving at 100kmh put next to a 10 second walk to neptune) as a space being. this is blowing my brain up.
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This gentleman's dedication level is off the continent. Salute to your efforts.
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I honestly thought he was just going to drive to the end of the road of something. WTF! This scared me.
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Not only a great visual representation of the sheer distances involved, but a genius way to write off a road trip.
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Another criminally underrated YouTube channel 👍
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This guy is a star for the dedication he put in this video.
