Largest planet in the universe
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What is the largest planet.
Smallest planet
How Big Is the Solar System?
In an effort to bring its vast distances down to Earth, we've shrunk the solar system to the size of a football field.
Our solar system is huge. There is a lot of empty space out there between the planets.
Voyager 1, the most distant human-made object, has been in space for more than 40 years and it still has not escaped the influence of our Sun. As of Feb. 1, 2020, Voyager 1 is about 13.8 billion miles (22.2 billion kilometers) from the Sun — nearly four times the average distance from the Sun to icy Pluto.
In an effort to bring these vast distances down to Earth, we’ve shrunk the solar system to the size of an American football field.
If the Sun were the size of a dime on the goal line, Neptune would be 60 yards away.
Needless to say, our solar system doesn’t fit real well on paper — or a Web site for that matter.
Scientists figured out a while ago that writing out those huge numbers wasn’t the best use of their time, so they invented the Astronomical Unit (AU).
One AU, about 93 million miles (150 million kilometers),
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