Saturday, September 10, 2011

What is the second star you pass when travelling at light speed?

You head out from earth on a spacechip that can hit the speed of light. The first star you pass on the way into the deep Milky Way is the sun. After you pick up some speed on circling the sun, you hit light speed and head out to the blackness of space. What star will you pass by next?|||It depends on the course you take on passing the sun...if you take a course in this direction





Right ascension 14h 39m 36.4951


Declination -60掳 50鈥?02.308"





In about 4.3 years you will reach Alpha Centauri, our nearest extrasolar star.





Good luck on reaching light speed though, I assume you realize it is still sci-fi right now...

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