Template:UniverseNav
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Earth in the Universe | ||
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Feature | Size or Distance | Contains |
Universe | A minimum of 93B light years, most likely infinite |
Everything |
Observable universe | At least 93B light years across | Billions of galaxies |
Large-scale structure of the cosmos | Hundreds to billions of light-years | - |
Virgo Supercluster | 200M light-years across | ~100 galaxy groups and clusters |
Local Group | 10M light-years across | 30 galaxies |
(Intergalactic space) | - | - |
Milky Way Galaxy | 100,000 light-years across | 200B-400B stars |
Orion Arm of the Milky Way | ~50,000 light-years long | billions of stars |
Gould Belt | ~3,000 light-years across | ? stars |
Local Bubble | 300 light-years across | ? stars |
Local Interstellar Cloud | 30 light-years across | ? stars |
(Proxima Centauri) | 4.22 light-years away | Second nearest star |
(Interstellar medium) | - | - |
Solar System | 0.00187 light-years across[1] 16.4 light-hours across |
Sun
8 planets |
(The Sun) | 8.3 light-minutes away 150 million km away |
Nearest star |
(The Moon) | 1.28 light-seconds away 385,000 km away |
Nearest (only) natural satellite |
Earth | 12,700 km in diameter | 1 planet |
Items shown in () do not include the Earth, but are shown for scale. See also: Orders of magnitude (length) |