Science Buddies: "Ask an Expert"

I have been wondering this for a while and now found the site and figured I would ask. Since we can't get to the speed of light but for this question let's just say that we can. Now let's say that we are traveling at that speed and we are heading direct towards a star. Since their light comes at us at light speed and we are traveling towards the star at light speed will that star ago 2 lights years for every light year that travel at it or will it still only age 1 light year for every year.

I got this question as a kid and riding with my parents in the car and how you could look out the window at a fixed spot and when the cars came by traveling at like 60 mph and you were going 60 mph the car passing by looked like it was going a lot faster then it was. But since there is a speed limit in the universe and that is the speed of light or 299,792,458 meters per second.

I have thought about this forever and can't come up with it. Thanks for any help.

racer0018 - Not sure this is a student science experiment question, and I don't quite understand your question, but here is a couple of thoughts. A light year is not a measure of time, or aging, but of distance. Your proposition of 'aging' as objects increase in velocity can be best answered by researching Einstein's theory of relativity, especially as it applies to time dilation.

Rick Marz