Answer:
Petametres; 41 Pm
Explanation:
A measurement should use units that give a number between 0.1 and 1000.
The measure that astronomers use is the light year — the distance that light travels in one year.
In those units, the distance is 4.3 light years.
We can calculate the distance in SI units.
[tex]\text{Time} = \text{4.3 yr} \times \dfrac{\text{365.25 da}}{\text{1 yr}} \times \dfrac{\text{24 h}}{\text{1 da}} \times \dfrac{\text{3600 s}}{\text{1h}} = 1.36 \times 10^{8} \text{ s}\\\\\text{Distance} = 1.36 \times 10^{8} \text{ s} \times \dfrac{2.998 \times 10^{8}\text{ m}}{\text{1 s}} = 4.1 \times 10^{16} \text{ m} = 41 \times 10^{15} \text{ m}[/tex]
In SI, we should measure the distance in petametres (1 Pm = 10¹⁵ m)
Thus, the distance to the nearest star is 41 Pm.
