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.
... 10, 1873, at his request, he was permitted to travel to Molokai to help the lepers who had virtually nothing to keep them warm or fed. After twelve years of ministering to ...