Astronomical Unit English

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Astronomical Unit

— noun a unit of length used for distances within the solar system; equal to the mean distance between the Earth and the Sun (approximately 93 million miles or 150 million kilometers)

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AU

Au

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AU

astronomy unit

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The Astronomical Unit (AU) is defined as the average distance between the Earth and the Sun. It is approximately 150 million km (93 million miles).

One parsec is the distance at which one astronomical unit subtends an angle of one arcsecond.