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Thanks for picture the line drawing next to actual photo put me on the same page as everyone else!

i have not had time to look through all the sites. .That you (guys?) have given me. i am working throuh them slowly Thanks fo you all. The ones I have viewed have made understand how much fiction there is in science FIcTION. At the same time marvel at how complex astronomy is. What's kind of shockin...

Do you folks have any suggestions for websites that "educate " someone on astronomy? Would going to a community college be better than a website? The motive behind the question is that I play a game with the Astronomy Picture of the day website. I look at the picture and try to guess the c...

I have theory.... Star systems that are close ( less than 1 or 2 light years )might be a nursey for intersellar civilizations. Distances of less than a light year would allow for "low tech" intersellar travel. If astronomrs could idenify these types of star clusters, they could look for tr...

Thanks for the correction. I honestly thought we were only 1 light year from Alpha and Proxima Centauri.

Have astronomers found stars, our Sun not included, that are less than one light year between each other.

Would that distance be close enough for the gravity one star to affect the other?

I know that the closest star our sun is Alpha Centauri, at about one light year . Are there stars that are closer than one light year to each other?

Are there planets around these stars?