A bit of background might help here. On Earth light travels so fast it seems instantaneous. With satellite links, light travels up to geostationary orbit and back, and you get a delay of a fraction of a second - after the light travels 70,000 miles. That's about a third of a light second.

It takes only eight minutes for light to get all the way to your eye from the Sun.

So think how far away something must be if light takes a year to get there? The stars are many light years away. 

The brightest star in Vega is Spica which is around 250 light years away. That means it takes light two and a half centuries to get to your eye from this star. Beta Virginis is 35.65 light years away and Gamma Virginis 38.1 light years away. They are not connected to each other in any way and are at a vast distance from Earth. The closest star to us is Proxima Centauri and it is 4.25 light years away.