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Just the other day I heard a "science" person say the nearest star was billions of miles away (I think it was on dropout TV, but it may have been YouTube), and I understand that billions may as well be unreachable, but trillions is a not a non-understandable number. Why do we want so badly to scale things to dimensions contained in our own solar system?
Approximately 4 light-years, that's how I've always heard that distance described.
Now I am not sure the distance light travels in one year is easier to grasp, but at least it's a single digit.
Our Light makes it from the giant fusion explosion to us on the mud ball in 8 minutes. And 5.5 hours to the poor butt of a joke that is Pluto. So ... 4 years you say....
You take that back!