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.
Proxima Centauri has been the nearest star for about 32,000 years, and it will hold this record for another 33,000 years. It will make its closest approach to the Sun in about 26,700 years, getting to within 3.11 light-years of Earth. After 33,000 years from now, the nearest star will be Ross 248.