M71 is at a distance of about 12,000 light years away from Earth and spans some 27 light years across.

The stars next closest to the Sun are the red dwarfs Barnard's Star (at 5.9 light years), Wolf 359 (7.8 light years), and Lalande 21185 (8.3 light years).

It is located 97 light years from Earth.

The Horsehead Nebula is approximately 1500 light years from Earth.

It is approximately 182 light years from Earth.

13.8 billion light years The age of the universe is estimated to be 13.8 billion years.

This is because Sirius is merely 8.6 light years from the Earth, while Canopus is much farther away at a distance of 310 light years.

M75 is at a distance of about 67,500 light years away from Earth and its apparent size on the sky translates to a true radius of some 67 light years.

M47 is at a distance of about 1,600 light years from Earth with an estimated age of about 78 million years.

And at this point we've come 100,000 light years from here.

In America it would be, We're 6,000 light years from the edge.

You know, it's 12 it's 13.7 billion light years, and it's not a guess.

The star is located about 5000 to 6000 light years from the Earth.

The nebula lies at an estimated distance between 6,500 and 10,000 light years from Earth.

It is roughly spherical, about 20 million light years in diameter and contains more than 3,000 galaxies.

So if the matter that originally emitted the oldest CMBR photons has a present distance of 46 billion light years, then at the time of decoupling when the photons were originally emitted, the distance would have been only about 42 million light years.

Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, and finally the Oort Cloud, which may extend as far as a light year.

The two stars do not form a binary star system as 35 Leo is only 100 light years from Earth.

It is classified as a semiregular variable star and its brightness varies from magnitude 2.99m to 3.33m.

It is located relatively close to the Sun, at a distance of 16.1 light years.

One of the rings, caused by a major eruption, is a shock wave in diameter around the black hole.

This arises from the light from three galaxies at distances of 3, 6, and 11 billion light years.

IGR J17091 3624 (also IGR J17091) is a stellar mass black hole 28,000 light years away.

Optical Energy

Earth, along with the Solar System, is situated in the Milky Way galaxy and orbits about 28,000 light years from the center of the galaxy.

The image is a square capturing 2.9 x 2.9 arcminutes of sky (roughly 100,000 light years per side).

Although it is relatively close to the Sun at just 12 light years, this star cannot be seen with the naked eye.

Distances accurate to 10 will be achieved as far away as the Galactic Centre, 30,000 light years away.

Gliese 229 (also written as Gl 229 or GJ 229) is a red dwarf about 19 light years away in the constellation Lepus.

Modern astronomers have discovered the faint remnant of this explosion and determined that it was only 7,100 light years from the Earth.

NGC 2770 is a type SASc spiral galaxy located about 88 million light years away, in the constellation Lynx.

The nearest star to the Earth, apart from the Sun, is Proxima Centauri, which is 39.9 trillion kilometres, or 4.2 light years away.

The spectrum of the object revealed a redshift of z 0.835, placing the burst at a distance of roughly 6 billion light years from Earth.

That burst had a redshift of 6.7, placing it approximately 190 million light years closer to Earth than GRB 090423.

In 2006, the magnetar 4U 0142 61, located 13,000 light years from Earth, was found to have a circumstellar disk.

RCW 38 is an embedded cluster located about 5,500 light years away in the direction of the constellation Vela (the Sails).

Galactic context The Solar System is located in the Milky Way, a barred spiral galaxy with a diameter of about 100,000 light years containing about 200 billion stars.

Despite the large distance to this SGR, estimated at 20,000 light years, the burst had large effects on the Earth's atmosphere.

Mira (, also known as Omicron Ceti, ο Ceti, ο Cet) is a red giant star estimated 200 400 light years away in the constellation Cetus.

The Alpha Centauri system is located 1.34 parsecs or 4.37 light years from the Sun, making it the closest star system to our Solar System.

For example, a light minute is 60 light seconds and the average distance from the Earth to the Sun is 8.317 light minutes.

Gliese 581 e or Gl 581 e is an extrasolar planet found around Gliese 581, a red dwarf star approximately 20.5 light years away from Earth in the constellation of Libra.

The Gould Belt is a partial ring of stars in the Milky Way, about 3000 light years across, tilted toward the galactic plane by about 16 to 20 degrees.

It contains many O and B type stars, and may represent the local spiral arm to which the Sun belongs currently the Sun is about 325 light years from the arm's center.

It is about 130 times more luminous than the Sun and has a surface temperature of 12,300 K, double that of the Sun.