Is it possible to travel to another star?
It would take over 70,000 years. The problem comes with how we can shrink those travel times.
One way to travel to another star is to catch a ride on waves from our own sun. As laid out by solar sail pioneer Gregory Matloff, photons from the sun could push against lightweight, reflective sails to propel a spacecraft. Other theoretical models of sail-based interstellar propulsion systems call
for a magnetic bubble instead of a physical sail. By tethering the bubble to a spacecraft and lining it up with a particle beam, scientists could propel a probe up to considerable speeds.
Hi! This is a great article! You did a really good job explaining about it! What is your opinion on this? Would you like to travel to a star? I would, I think it would be so cool. One problem... it takes a really long time. Great job!
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