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[[Image:1e9m comparison.png|thumb|350px|right|Upper part: [[Gamma Orionis]], [[Algol|Algol B]], the [[Sun]] (centre), underneath their darker mirror images <span style="white-space:nowrap;">(artist's interpretation),</span> and <span style="white-space:nowrap;">[[1 E8 m|other objects]],</span> to scale.]]
To help compare different distances this page lists lengths starting at 10<sup>9</sup> [[metre]]s (1 [[gigametre]] (Gm) or 1 million [[kilometre]]s).

'''[[1 E+8 m|Distances shorter than 10<sup>9</sup> metres]]'''
* 1.4 Gm &mdash; Diameter of [[Sun]]<ref>[http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/sunfact.html Sun Fact Sheet]</ref>
* 1.5 Gm &mdash; ''(proposed) Expected orbit from Earth of the [[James Webb Space Telescope]]''
* 2.19 Gm &mdash; Closest approach of [[Comet Lexell]] to [[Earth]], happened on 1 July 1770; closest [[comet]] approach on record
* 3 Gm &mdash; Total length of "wiring" in the human brain.<ref>Neuroscience: The Science of the Brain [http://www.braincampaign.org/Pub/Pub_Main_Display.asp?LC_Docs_ID=2769] p.44</ref>
* 4.2 Gm &mdash; Diameter of [[Algol|Algol B]]
* 5.0 Gm &mdash; Closest approach of [[Comet Halley]] to Earth, happened on 10 April 837
* ''5.0 Gm &mdash; (proposed) Size of the arms of the giant triangle shaped Michelson interferometer of the [[Laser Interferometer Space Antenna]] (LISA) planned to start observations in or around 2015.''
* 7.9 Gm &mdash; Diameter of [[Gamma Orionis]]
* 9.0 Gm &mdash; Estimated diameter of the [[event horizon]] of [[Sagittarius A*]], the [[supermassive black hole]] in the center of the [[Milky Way]] galaxy

'''[[1 E+10 m|Distances longer than 10<sup>10</sup> metres]]'''

==References==
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Revision as of 08:29, 10 December 2014

Template:Orders of magnitude (length) imagemap astronomical-scale

Upper part: Gamma Orionis, Algol B, the Sun (centre), underneath their darker mirror images (artist's interpretation), and other objects, to scale.

To help compare different distances this page lists lengths starting at 109 metres (1 gigametre (Gm) or 1 million kilometres).

Distances shorter than 109 metres

Distances longer than 1010 metres

References

  1. ^ Sun Fact Sheet
  2. ^ Neuroscience: The Science of the Brain [1] p.44

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