Astronomy¶
Rosetta spacecraft, Philae probe lands
M42
67P/Churyumov-Gerasim
astronomical unit (AU, or au)¶
A unit of length effectively equal to the average, or mean, distance between Earth and the Sun, defined as 149,597,870.7 km
What Is the Distance Between Earth and Mars?¶
The minimum distance from the Earth to Mars is about 54.6 million kilometers. The farthest apart they can be is about 401 million km. The average distance is about 225 million km.
What is the Distance to the Moon?¶
The average distance to the Moon is 384,403 km
What Is the Distance Between Earth and sun?¶
149,600,000 km
Software¶
stellarium
celestia
Starry Night
Galaxy¶
Andromeda galaxy