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There are no planets at that distance from the Earth. The Earth is 8 light minutes away from the Sun. Neptune is 3 light hours from the Sun. The closest star, and therefore the closest planet outside of our solar system would be Alpha Centuri at 4.24 light years away.

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A light year is the distance a photon of light travels in an Earth year. This is equivalent to 9,460,730,472,580.8 km just under ten trillion kilometers.

The most distant planet in our solar system is Neptune (Pluto is no longer classified as a planet) which is around 4.55 billion km from the sun. Earth orbits the sun at an average distance of about 150 million kilometers. So Neptune can be anywhere from 4.551 billion km to 4.553 billion km from Earth at any given time.

Voyager 1, the farthest man-made object, which is now positioned on the outer edge of our solar system, and much more distant than any of our solar systems planets is about 14.6 light-hours from Earth. As a basis for comparison, the Moon is about 1.4 light-seconds from Earth, the sun is approximately 8.5 light-minutes away, Pluto is about 5.5 light-hours.

These distances are well under 1 light year. Although there are many extra-solar planets (planets which are outside of our solar system) which are much farther than 1 light year. The nearest star is 4.3 light-years away.

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  • Mercury - 6.12112744 × 10-6 light years
  • Venus - 1.14379372 × 10-5 light years
  • Earth - 1.58128864 × 10-5 light years
  • Mars - 2.40936965 × 10-5 light years
  • Jupiter - 8.22942617 × 10-5 light years
  • Saturn - 0.000151518954 light years
  • Uranus - 0.000304071713 light years
  • Neptune - 0.000476024538 light years

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  • Pluto - 0.000624317799 light years
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No. The furthest planet, Neptune is only about 30 AU from Earth which is a mere 0.000475 light years away. The edge of the solar system is a little more than double that distance.

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No. A light year is how far light travels in one year. Light takes less than 13 hours to get from the Sun to the far edge of our solar system (which is far less than a year.)

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