What is the scientific name of our solar system? How far away is the next closest solar system? How long does?

it take a rocketship to get there? How are the other solar systems different from this one?

What is the scientific name of our solar system? How far away is the next closest solar system? How long does?
%26gt;What is the scientific name of our solar system?





It doesn't really have a scientific name in the same sense that species do. The Sun's scientific name is 'Sol', so most likely our star system would simply be called 'the Sol star system' and left at that.





%26gt;How far away is the next closest solar system?





The closest star to the Sun is about 4.2 light years away. It is called Proxima Centauri. It is orbiting very widely in a star system with I believe two other stars, so the center of that star system is actually closer to 4.3 light years away.





%26gt;How long does


%26gt;it take a rocketship to get there?





It depends how fast it's going! The Voyager 1 spacecraft, which is both the farthest known spacecraft from the Sun and the one with the fastest interstellar speed, is going at about 17.1 kilometers per second. If it retained this as a constant speed, it would be able to reach the center of the Alpha Centauri system in about 75400 years. A spacecraft moving very close to the speed of light would take roughly 4.3 years to get there, and a spacecraft moving at 10% the speed of light (a more realistic speed with foreseeable technology) would take about 43 years. The final speed of the ship really depends on how much reaction mass you can throw out the back and how fast you can throw it.





%26gt;How are the other solar systems different from this one?





In just about every way you can think of! Most stars are not yellow stars like the Sun, but rather red dwarf stars; there are also orange, white and blue-white stars, white dwarfs, red giants, neutron stars and black holes which can all serve as gravitational centers for star systems (whether or not any planets actually orbit them). Many star systems even have more than one stellar object. They can also be orbited by different types of planets, including not just rocky planets and 'cold' gas giants like our own, but also 'hot' gas giants. Some extrasolar gas giants are even more massive than Jupiter, and in fact scientists are still working on coming up with a clear distinction between large planets and small stars (there is a class of objects known as brown dwarfs that straddles the line inbetween). Although no star system has yet been verified to have more planets than our own does, detection of extrasolar planets is still a rather new field, and as our detection abilities increase it is quite probable that we will discover star systems with more planets than the Sun, most likely combinations of both gas giants and rocky planets.
Reply:The only name that I am aware of for our solar system is "the solar system." Since that includes a reference to our own sun (Sol) that is probably sufficient.





The nearest system is probably around the nearest star - which is Proxima Centauri - part of the Alpha Centauri system - about 4.2 light years away. With current technology, it would take a spacecraft thousands of years to get there.





We don't really know how other systems are different. Some certainly have hotter stars, many have double stars. Most of the remote planets that we have found so far are, by default, huge - because that's what we can see so far. That doesn't mean they are all like that.
Reply:Our solar system is called the Sol System. The reason is becasue that is the name we gave it, and there is no one from another system to name it anything else.





The next closest solar system is about 4.5 light years away - 26,435,651,184,000 -- about 26 TRILLION miles away. All other solar system are MUCH father away than this!





The fastest "rocket ship" that we have at this time are those that went to the moon in the 1970's. they traveled at about 25,000 miles an hour. At that rate it would take about 121,000 YEARS to get to the next closest solar system.





We don't know for sure about ANY other solar system. No one has ever seen a planet around another sun other than our own. Scientists THINK that there are other planets, but this is based on special calculations and "guesses". Other planets are too far away, and cannot be seen with a telescope, not even the Hubble.





The only thing we know about other "solar systems" is the type of sun they have. If our sun is "normal" then there are suns bigger than ours (giants) and there our suns smaller than our (dwarves). There are suns hotter than ours (blue suns) and suns cooler than ours (red suns).





BUT . . .we don't know for sure IF these other suns have planets or not. And we don't know what the planets would be like of the sun is larger or smaller, or hotter or colder. So we don't know if they have life on them or not.