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Old 21-May-2003, 04:38 PM
adowlin adowlin is offline
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Using Farslayer's distance of a light year, the red dwarf is approximately 45.75 trillion miles away. For comparison, the Earth is about 93 million miles away from the Sun. Thus, this red dwarf is about 492,000 times as far away from us as we are from the Sun.

*Math experts, please feel free to correct me--it's been years since my last math class!