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.
It takes 8.3 minutes for light to travel from the Sun to the Earth (a distance of 1.58 Ã 10-5 light-years). The most distant space probe, Voyager 1, was 13 light hours (only 1.5 Ã 10-3 light years) away from Earth in September 2004. It took Voyager 27 years to cover that distance.