Ingredients: 1  1/3 cup olive oil. 2  5 garlic cloves. 3  Pinch of red pepper flakes (optional) 4  1 Tbs. fine dried bread crumbs, toasted. 5  3 lb. small clams, preferably Manila, well scrubbed. 6  1/2 cup dry white wine. 7  1 cup water. 8  1/4 cup chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley. 9  1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro.
1 The nearest star is some 4.2 light years away, and that distance was known to within an accuracy of better than 0.1 light year. 2  For a star measured as 20 light years away, the distance estimate is accurate to within a light year or so.  For stars 50 light years away, the margin of error is perhaps 5 to 10 light years.
The closest star to Earth, other than the sun, is Alpha Centauri at some 4.4 light-years away. Scaling the Earth-sun distance at one inch places this star at 4.4 miles (7 km) distant. The red star in the center of this picture is Proxima Centauri, our sun's nearest neighbor among the stars.