Astronomers are scrambling to gather data on a mysterious object that’s currently hurtling through the solar system.

Now the diameter of the known universe can be described as 558 billion trillion miles (that’s 558 followed by 21 zeros) or 28 gigaparsecs. If you’re like most astronomers, I’m pretty sure which size ...

FireChicken2396 said essentially the same thing in a comment on NexusMods: "It baffles me that Bethesda chose to use BOTH Light Years and Astronomical Units in the game. AU was most of the time in ...

The Sun and Earth are 149 million kilometres apart, and we give this distance a name: an astronomical unit (AU). For an even twistier unit of distance, we use the parsec (insert Han Solo Kessel ...

If you think of the distance from the Earth to the Sun (approximately 93 million miles) as 1 AU (Astronomical Unit) then the Oort Cloud begins, way, way past Neptune at about 1,000 AUs.

An astronomical unit (AU) is equal to the distance between Earth and the sun, 93 million miles. Technically, A11pl3Z is already in the solar system, and is currently 3.8 AU away from Earth as of ...

One astronomical unit is the distance between the Earth and Sun, approximately 91.757 million miles. For comparison, the dwarf planet Pluto is located 34 AU from the Sun. This illustration shows ...

Astronomers refer to the average Earth-sun distance as an astronomical unit (AU), which is approximately 93 million miles (150 million kilometers), as defined by the International Astronomical Union .