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> Stars are of the order of thousands of star-diameters apart from each other no. they're millions of star-diameters apart. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sola
by sigstoat 6y ago
> Stars are of the order of thousands of star-diameters apart from each other
no. they're millions of star-diameters apart.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_radius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_radius compare it to a light year. note that the nearest star is 4 something light years away. the average is about 5 ly.
> while galaxies are of the order tens of galaxy-diameters apart.
i think that's low, but harder to define.
- Ma8ee 6y agoYou are absolutely right. I was too quick trying to convert between millions of km to lightyears in my head.