List of Various Distances and Lengths

∟List of Various Distances and Lengths

This section lists various distances and lengths to give us a sense of scale about space.

The list below provides some reference distances and lengths to give us a sense of scale about space:

        8.6 ly - Distance to star Sirius
        4.2 ly - Distance to Proxima Centauri, a nearest star
149,597,870 km - Average distance from Earth to Sun
  4,366,813 km - Circumference of Sun
  1,392,684 km - Diameter of Sun
    384,403 km - Average distance to Moon
     40,008 km - Length of the equator of Earth
     12,742 km - Average diameter of Earth
      3,475 km - Diameter of Moon
       8.85 km - Height of Mount Everest
        930  m - Height of the world's tallest building in Dubai
        105  m - Length of a soccer field
          3  m - Average wavelength of FM radio waves
       12.2 cm - Wavelength of microwaves in a microwave oven
      24.26 mm - Diameter a US Quarter
        0.2 mm - Diameter of horsehair
        680 nm - Wavelength of red light
        260 nm - Length of the smallest transistor in Pentium 3 chip
         17 nm - Diameter of a smallest viruses Porcine circovirus
         10 pm - Wavelength of gamma rays
        2.2 fm - Diameter of neutron
          1 fm - Diameter of proton