The sun is 93 million miles from earth How long will it take a typical jet airplane traveling at 400 miles per hour to travel to the Sun from the earth?

Answer 1

Well, first of all, space ships, probes, vehicles etc. never travel in straight lines.

But we'll ignore that inconvenient fact, in order to get at the main point of the

question, which is to convey a feeling for the distance to the Sun.

Traveling in a straight line at the speed of a passenger jet ... 400 miles per hour ...

it would take . . .

-- 24.8 days to reach the Moon,

-- 26.5 years to reach the Sun,

-- 111.8 years to reach Jupiter, (when Jupiter is as close to Earth as it can ever get),

-- 7.21 million years to reach the nearest star outside our solar system.

Answer 2

It would take the jet airplane approximately 233,750 hours, or about 26.6 years, to travel the 93 million miles to the Sun at a speed of 400 miles per hour. However, it's important to note that a jet airplane cannot actually fly to the Sun due to limitations in fuel, heat resistance, and other factors.