Introduction to Cosmology

Tables

Table A.1 Cosmic distances and dimensions

Distance to the Sun 8 ′ 15 ′′(light minutes)
Distance to the nearest star (훼Centauri) 1.3pc
Diameters of globular clusters 5–30pc
Thickness of our Galaxy, the ‘Milky Way’ 0.3kpc
Distance to our galactic center 8 kpc
Radius of our Galaxy, the ‘Milky Way’ 12.5 kpc
Distance to the nearest galaxy (Large Magellanic Cloud) 55 kpc
Distance to the Andromeda nebula (M31) 770 kpc
Size of galaxy groups 1–5 Mpc
Thickness of filament clusters 5 ℎ−^1 Mpc
Distance to the Local Supercluster center (in Virgo) 17 Mpc
Distance to the ‘Great Attractor’ 79 ℎ−^1 Mpc
Size of superclusters ≳ 50 ℎ−^1 Mpc
Size of large voids 60 ℎ−^1 Mpc
Distance to the Coma cluster 100 ℎ−^1 Mpc
Length of filament clusters 100 ℎ−^1 Mpc
Size of the ‘Sloan Great Wall’ 420 ℎ−^1 Mpc
Hubble radius 3000 ℎ−^1 Mpc

Introduction to Cosmology, Fourth Edition. Matts Roos
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