The Southern Ring Nebula

We'll do our best to describe images in an audio only form at here, but at least we'll have a good conversation about them. And i'll have some questions to ask about how that works exactly as we get there. So this one, i read, is about two thousand light years away from us, which i think we first need to put that into contact. The next closest star, alpa centari, right? Which is actually a system of three stars. How far away are we talking now? Well, light takes about four point three years to get from there to here.