Saturday 8 January 2011 7 distances to noodle the brain

  1. Voyager 1 is now 16 light hours, or 0.0032 light-years away from the earth (after 33 years of travel)
  2. The nearest Star (other than the Sun), Proxima Centauri is about 4.22 light-years away
  3. Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky is 8.6 light-years away
  4. The centre of our galaxy is about 26,000 light-years away
  5. Our nearest neighbour galaxy, Andromeda, is approximately 2.5 million light-years away
  6. 3C 273, the brightest quasar is approximately 2.4 billion light years away
  7. The edge of the visible universe is 4.6 billion light years away
1 light year = 9,460,730,472,580.8 km or 5,878,625,373,183.608 miles

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