3 ms·

For values of "nearby" approximately equal to 149,346,794,944,180 kms.

• sidlls 4y ago
  It’s not even a rounding error at the scale of our own galaxy (not joking: the measurement error for the size of the galaxy is something like +/-3kLY). May as well be next door. 15 LY is very close.
  • nine_k 4y ago
    Were it a larger star prone to flares, that would even be dangerously close for Earths life.