Reflected sunlight from the Moon's surface takes 1.2–1.3 seconds to travel the distance to the Earth's surface (travelling roughly 350000 to 400000 kilometres).
10−6
1.58×10−5 ly
One astronomical unit (the distance from the Sun to the Earth). It takes approximately 499 seconds (8.32 minutes) for light to travel this distance.[26]
1.27×10−4 ly
The <i id="mw3w">Huygens</i> probe lands on Titan off Saturn and transmits images from its surface, 1.2 billion kilometres from Earth.
5.04×10−4 ly
New Horizons encounters Pluto at a distance of 4.7 billion kilometres, and the communication takes 4 hours 25 minutes to reach Earth.
10−3
2.04×10−3 ly
The most distant space probe, Voyager 1, was about 18 light-hours (130 au,19.4 billion km, 12.1 billion mi) away from the Earth ข้อมูลเมื่อ October 2014[update].[27] It will take about 17500 years to reach one light-year at its current speed of about 17 km/s (38000 mph, 61 200 km/h) relative to the Sun. On 12 September 2013, NASA scientists announced that Voyager 1 had entered the interstellar medium of space on 25 August 2012, becoming the first manmade object to leave the Solar System.[28]
2.28×10−3 ly
Voyager 1 as of October 2018, nearly 20 light-hours (144 au, 21.6 billion km, 13.4 billion mi) from the Earth.
100
1.6×100 ly
The Oort cloud is approximately two light-years in diameter. Its inner boundary is speculated to be at 50000 au ≈ 0.8 ly, with its outer edge at 100000 au ≈ 1.6 ly.
2.0×100 ly
Approximate maximum distance at which an object can orbit the Sun (Hill sphere/Roche sphere, 125000 au). Beyond this is the deep ex-solar gravitational interstellar medium.
Sirius, the brightest star of the night sky. Twice as massive and 25 times more luminous than the Sun, it outshines more luminous stars due to its relative proximity.
1.19×101 ly
Tau Ceti e, an extrasolar candidate for a habitable planet. 6.6 times as massive as the earth, it is in the middle of the habitable zone of star Tau Ceti.[31][32]
2.05×101 ly
Gliese 581, a red-dwarf star with several detectable exoplanets.
3.1×102 ly
Canopus, second in brightness in the terrestrial sky only to Sirius, a type A9 bright giant10700 times more luminous than the Sun.
103
3×103 ly
A0620-00, the second-nearest known black hole, is about 3000 light-years away.
The Andromeda Galaxy is approximately 2.5 million light-years away.
3×106 ly
The Triangulum Galaxy (M33), at about 3 million light-years away, is the most distant object visible to the naked eye.
5.9×107 ly
The nearest large galaxy cluster, the Virgo Cluster, is about 59 million light-years away.
1.5×108 – 2.5×108 ly
The Great Attractor lies at a distance of somewhere between 150 and 250 million light-years (the latter being the most recent estimate).
109
1.2×109 ly
The Sloan Great Wall (not to be confused with Great Wall and Her–CrB GW) has been measured to be approximately one billion light-years distant.
2.4×109 ly
3C 273, optically the brightest quasar, of apparent magnitude 12.9, just dimmer than R136a1. 3C 273 is about 2.4 billion light-years away.
4.57×1010 ly
The comoving distance from the Earth to the edge of the visible universe is about 45.7 billion light-years in any direction; this is the comoving radius of the observable universe. This is larger than the age of the universe dictated by the cosmic background radiation; see here for why this is possible.
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