I love what you said about the 25 trillion miles. Ages ago when I was in grammar school they started reprinting the Adam Strange stories in Strange Adventures. The first reprint issue had an article about the Centauri system, and as I recall at that time Proxima was actually closer to Earth than Alpha.
During science one day the teacher was going on about Alpha being the closest star to our solar system. I raised my hand and said no Proxima was, and promptly got slammed by the teacher. The next day I brought in the Strange Adventures issue with the text piece about the Centauri system.
At a parent-teacher conference a couple of weeks later the teacher still couldn't let go about being proved wrong by a comic book.