Cosmic distances
Earth - Sun = 150 million km = 8 light minutes
Next nearest star = 4 light years
Earth - centre of Milky Way = 26,000 light years
Next nearest galaxy (Andromeda) = 2.5 million light years
= 0.8 Mpc (Megaparsec)
1Mpc is typical inter-galaxy distance
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