The human species seems to be within a thousand years of reaching across to the nearest stars.

Half a dozen may lie closer to us than the nearest star.

Why would they be there, too far from the nearest star to use it for reference?

Or the brilliance in the day of the nearest star.

"So is it just luck that we're not a million light years from the nearest star?"

The nearest star to us is over four light years away.

The nearest star is a long way out of our course.

In any case, the ship, fast as it was, would take a thousand years to reach the nearest star.

Even at the speed of light it would take 150,000 years to reach the nearest star.

It would take them centuries to reach the nearest star.