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2 years ago

What is the order of magnitude of the distance of Sun to nearest star in meters?

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2 answers:

Brilliant_brown [7]2 years ago

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Answer:

Mercury, 46,001,272 km from the sun at the nearest point.

Explanation:

neonofarm [45]2 years ago

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Answer:

Approximating the Milky Way as a disk and using the density in the solar neighborhood, there are about 100 billion stars in the Milky Way.

Explanation:

Since we are making an order of magnitude estimate, we will make a series of simplifying assumptions to get an answer that is roughly right.

Let's model the Milky Way galaxy as a disk.

The volume of a disk is:

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Plugging in our numbers (and assuming that

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)

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(

)

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(

)

Is the approximate volume of the Milky Way.

Now, all we need to do is find how many stars per cubic meter (

) are in the Milky Way and we can find the total number of stars.

Let's look at the neighborhood around the Sun. We know that in a sphere with a radius of

m there is exactly one star (the Sun), after that you hit other stars. We can use that to estimate a rough density for the Milky Way.

Using the volume of a sphere

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256

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stars /

Going back to the density equation:

Plugging in the density of the solar neighborhood and the volume of the Milky Way:

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256

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)

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256

stars (or 100 billion stars)

Is this reasonable? Other estimates say that there are are 100-400 billion stars in the Milky Way. This is exactly what we found.

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Part a

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