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    3 months ago

    I use to be able to ask google the distance in kilometers of anything in space and get an accurate answer. So I first asked this same question in google but it only gave the answer in light years for some reason. That’s when I went to bing and got their ridiculous answer.

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        3 months ago

        According to the website Space, the distance is 37.8 trillion km.

        This is not correct, and is probably the result of rounding the light year distance to 4 ly before converting to km. The google answer is pretty close.

        The correct answer is the distance to Alpha Centauri is 41.5 petameters (trillion km) and the distance to Proxima Centauri is 40.2 petameters.