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This means you could put the solar system about 800 times in one light year. We took the radius of the solar system to be 395 au which means it has a diameter of 79 au.

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And 1 light year is 63270 au.

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Solar system size light years. This means you could put the solar system about 3440 times between the sun and the nearest star taking this definition. A theorized cloud of icy objects that could orbit the sun to a distance of 100000 astronomical units or 187. Thats about three times as far out as pluto which is about 40 au from the sun or about six times farther away from earth than neptunes orbit.

Now let us put things into perspective. The end of the solar system is about 122 astronomical units au away from the sun where one au is 93 million miles 150 million kilometers. When we leave our solar system distances get very large.

Very very very small. It takes 5 light hours meaning the distance light travels in 5 hours for light to get out to pluto from the earth. The nearest star named proxima centauri is over 4 light years away.

The solar system is located in the orion arm 26000 light years from the center of the milky way galaxy. If you include all the comets like we did in the second part then the solar system has a diameter of about 100000 au which means it would fit 27 times between the sun and the. The milky way is about 100 000 light years in diameter the solar system is about 10 light hours in diameter.

It takes 8 minutes for the light of the sun to reach us. Astronomers suggest that the solar system is about 05 light year long or possibly even a full light year. Now 1 light year is 63270 au which means that the distance to the nearest star is 272061 au.

Nasa in the furthest reaches of the solar system is the oort cloud. We took the radius of the solar system to be 395 au which means it has a diameter of 79 au.

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