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The Sun is a long way off.
It takes light 8 minutes to get here from the Sun.
Light travels fast, so fast that if you were in a rocket going around the Earth you would go around 7 times in one second, so fast it would be hard to count as you go by (1234567 counted as fast as I can while pointing up)
We live in a very large group of stars called a gallaxy, its called the milky way, and has over 100 billion stars maybe as many as 300 billion and remember a billion is a thousand million. Our Sun is a star so its a star you can see in daytime.
There are many more galaxies than there are grains of sand on all the beaches on Earth... Billions and billions.
There is a photo taken by the Hubble Space Telescope showing over 2500 galaxies in the darkest part of the sky. If you hold a grain of sand at arms length that grain of sand will hide those 2500 galaxies and everywhere you hold that grain of sand you know behind it are at least 2500 galaxies.
Each galaxy will be about 2 million light years from it neighbour.
Our neighbour galaxy is that far away and you can actually see it with your own eyes so if anyone asks how good you can see tell them you can see something 2 million lights years away.
I stop there because that's all I know.
Alex
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