2.6 · 1017m (27 light years) - distance from Earth to β Comae Berenices, a star approximately as bright as our sun. Its faintness gives us an idea how our sun would appear when viewed from even so close a distance as this.
... Vedic form, it is a close descendant of Proto-Indo-European, the root of all later Indo-European languages. Vedic Sanskrit is also practically identical to Avestan, the ...