100 gigametres

100 gigametres
From largest to smallest: Jupiter's orbit, red supergiant star Betelgeuse, Mars' orbit, Earth's orbit, star R Doradus, and orbits of Venus, Mercury. Inside R Doradus' depiction are the blue giant star Rigel and red giant star Aldebaran. The faint yellow glow around the Sun represents one light minute. Click image to see more details and links to their scales.

To help compare distances at different orders of magnitude this page lists lengths starting at 1011 metres (100 Gm or 100 million kilometres or 0.7 astronomical units).

Distances shorter than 1011 m

  • 109 Gm0.7 AUDistance between Venus and the Sun
  • 149.6 Gm (93.0 million mi) — 1.0 AUDistance between the Earth and the Sun - the definition of the astronomical unit
  • 180 Gm1.2 AUMaximum diameter of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole in the center of Milky Way galaxy
  • 228 Gm1.5 AUDistance between Mars and the Sun
  • 570 Gm3.8 AULength of the tail of Comet Hyakutake measured by Ulysses; the actual value could be much higher
  • 591 Gm4.0 AUMinimum distance between the Earth and Jupiter
  • 624 Gm4.2 AUDiameter of Antares
  • 780 Gm5.2 AUDistance between Jupiter and the Sun
  • 965 Gm6.4 AUMaximum distance between the Earth and Jupiter

Distances longer than 1012 m

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