A team of scientists from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in the USA conducted a study to understand how far away stars are from each other. It turns out that the average distance between two stars in the Milky Way is about five light-years, or 47 trillion kilometers. Researchers, with their results shared In the magazine life science
Astronomers also emphasized that the human eye cannot detect this distance. It is so massive that a single visible star can appear as two stars close together. At the same time, people underestimate the distance between stars in constellations.
Anna Rosen, an astrophysicist and assistant professor at San Diego State University, noted that the night sky panorama as a whole is a 2-dimensional projection created by human vision. In reality, an observer cannot know whether the stars are close to each other.
Scientists also believe that the distance between stars actually varies because they are not static. “All the stars appear fixed, but if we could travel over a thousand years we would see the shape of the constellations gradually changing,” added astronomer Jos de Bruyne of the European Space Agency.
Earlier astronomers discovered A massive ring of stars around a neighboring galaxy.