E S *
The "E" represents Earth, "S" represent Sun, and the "*" represents the nearest star(which is Proxima Centauri).
The main thing to worry about here is units, so ill label everything out.
D'e,s'(Distance between earth and sun) = .00001581 light years
D'e,*'(Distance between earth and Proxima) = 4.243 light years
Now this is where it gets fun, we need to put all the light years into centimeters.(theres alot)
In one light year, there are 9.461 * 10^17 centimeters.(the * in this case means multiplication) or 946,100,000,000,000,000 centimeters.
To convert we multiply the light years we found by the big number.
D'e,s'(Distance between earth and sun) = 1.496 * 10^13 centimeters
D'e,*'(Distance between earth and Proxima) = 4.014 * 10^18 centimeters
Now we scale things down, we treat 1.496 * 10^13 centimeters as a SINGLE centimeter, because that's the distance between the earth and the sun. So all we have to do is divide (4.014 * 10^18 ) by (1.496 * 10^13 ).
Why? because that how proportions work.
As a result, you get a mere 268335.7 centimeters.
To put that into perspective, that's only about 1.7 miles
A lot of my numbers came from google, so they are estimations and are not perfect, but its hard to be on really large scales.
