It's large object hundreds of astronomical units from the Sun.

Now, however, a sweep had discovered this crystal at a distance of two astronomical units.

When you have to measure them in astronomical units, it probably isn't a good bet.

The reassurance that there were, in fact, eleven human souls closer than eight astronomical units away.

Or about one hundred astronomical units.

The distance to be traveled was roughly one and a half light-hours-sometwelve astronomical units of ninety-threemillion miles each.

Opening its affinity full, projecting a wordless shout of joy and sorrow over a spherical zone thirty astronomical units in radius.

That meant that by now they could have traveled anywhere between one and two billion kilometers-say ,betweensix and thirteen astronomical units.

At the moment, New Horizons is about 10 astronomical units (the average distance between the Sun and the Earth) from Pluto.

Struve found the probable velocity of the solar system in space to be fifteen miles a second, or five astronomical units a year.

In the universe outside, six and a half hours slipped away, and with them another 7 billion kilometers, or forty-six more astronomical units.

Starman made its Martian approach "within 0.05 astronomical units, or under 5 million miles, of the Red Planet".

A substellar-mass object in orbit at about 300 astronomical units from the young low-mass star G 196-3 was detected by direct imaging.

Previous close encounter Back in July, Asteroid 2020ND measuring 170 metres in diameter came within 0.034 astronomical units (AU) of Earth.

Asteroids and other space materials are considered near-Earth objects if they pass within 1.3 astronomical units of our planet -or 149 million km.

The white dwarf orbited Eta Boötis A at a distance of 1.4 astronomical units, with a period of about one and a third years.