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Neptune, the most distant planet, takes 4.16 hours for light to reach. The nearest star, Proxima Centauri, takes light 4.3 years to get to. The fastest spacecraft ever launched from Earth is NASA's New Horizons mission, which will make a close encounter with Pluto and its moons in 2015.
A year is defined as the amount of time it takes for a planet to make an orbit around the sun. On Earth, this amount of time is 365 days and that's what we call a year. On Neptune, which is 30 astronomical units away or 30 times the distance, a year takes 165 Earth years so it takes 165 years for Neptune to complete its orbit and that is how long a Neptune year is. I'm Christopher Snead, a graduate student at UCLA's Department of Earth and Space Sciences. Thanks for watching.