The current closest star to us is Proxima Centauri, which is about 4.2 light years away. The stars are not only orbiting around the center of the galaxy, but those orbits are themselves changing over time they're processing. And so if you went back in time, it would have been all sorts of different nearest stars at different stages of Earth's history.

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