The distances between the planets are drawn to scale
in this
diagram, but the sizes of the planets and the sun
are vastly
exagerated because the scale size of the Sun, for
example, would
be an almost invisible point of only 0.014 millimeter
in
diameter; Jupiter would be 0.00143 mm and the Earth
a microscopic
0.00013 mm, that is, about a thousand times smaller
than this
period .
On the same scale the distance to nearest star would
be 0.25 miles
and the distance to the nearest galaxy (Magellanic
cloud) would
be an astonishing 8,000 miles, or in reality, 137
000
light-years. As a comparison: light requires a bit
over eight
minutes to travel from the sun to the earth (93 million
miles)
and over 5 hours to travel to the outer reaches of
Pluto.
One light-year is about 5,900 billion miles in length,
or
5,900,000,000,000 miles.
(from www.hyperhistory.com)