Recent posts about Wells, Minnesota on our local forum with over 2,000,000 registered users. Wells is mentioned 427 times on our forum: Latest news from Wells, MN collected exclusively by city-data.com from local newspapers, TV, and radio stations. Ancestries: German (46.7%), Norwegian (9.7%), American (6.1%), English (3.0%), Polish (2.8%), French (1.5%). Current Local Time: CST time zone. Land area: 1.35 square miles.
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.
How long it would take to get to Neptune from Earth would depend on the path chosen and on where Neptune and Earth were in their orbits when the mission was launched. For example, the Voyager 2 spacecraft was launched on Aug 20, 1977 and it reached Neptune on Aug 24, 1989. So, Voyager 2 took about twelve years to reach Neptune. 1  Javascript must be enabled to use Cool Cosmos. 2  Learn how.